Jiang Boyan™
About Us
Background
Jiang Boyan™ works closely with some of the worlds most prestigious authors. We help them navigate publishing, intellectual property rights and financing opportunities.
We make use of big data and strategic thinking to develop insights and analyze international cultural trends to identify opportunities.
We believe that the greatest stories have global reach and intersect with entertainment, media and culture.
Leadership
James Bryant
Senior Partner
Mr. Bryant was the founder of three digital publishing companies. Founded in the early 90s, ProCD was a pioneering digital reference publisher that created some of the world’s first CD-ROMs. It merged with ACXIOM (Nasdaq: ACXM) in 1996. Information Please LLC was a pioneer in publishing reference material on the internet to assist children with their homework. It was sold to Pearson (NYSE:PSO). Trajectory LLC was founded in 2011 and was an early pioneer in Natural Language Processing. It developed and deployed the first reading algorithms that eventually “read” over 100,000 books in English, Chinese and German. Trajectory was awarded the Book Industry Study Group’s Innovation Award in 2015.
Jiang Yanping
Senior Partner
Ms. Jiang is a Senior Partner of Jiang Boyan™. She is also the CEO and Vice-Chairman of Beijing OpenBook Ltd. Ms. Jiang has served as the Chief Editor of a large number of OpenBook’s independent research projects. Ms Jiang has also presided over research projects undertaken by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and provincial Publicity Departments which together oversee the Chinese book industry.
On China
IP Innovative Publication-Taking Yang Hongying’s AR Copyright Export as an Example
China International Copyright Services Conference 2020: New trends in publishing and distribution in the context of 5G
Speech by Ms. Jiang Yanping at Frankfurt Book Fair 2019:
Speech by James Bryant at OpenBook Conference 2019:
Archives:
- Ms. Jiang Yanping: Define a new “Reading Industry”,2020
- Interview of Jim by International Publishing Journal, 2019.
- Interview of Ms. Jiang Yanping at Frunkfurt Book Fair 2018, Reported by Publishing Perspectives, October 2018.
- Ms. Jiang Yanping: Defining a new industry of “Reading Industry”, Interview of Ms.Jiang by Chinese Publishers Magazine, 2019.
More Market Information about China
Other Media Reports:
The third “Nationwide Reading – National Bookstore Choice” organized by OpenBook selected “Top Ten” excellent original works from 5 categories (included social science, children’s literature) with market potential and reader reputation, and in line with the quality of reading, comprehensively evaluated by the recent hot spots in the book market, new books (first publication/non-public version) published within the past year (July 2020-June 2021).
Remarks at 2021 the 30th National Book Expo
- The publisher announced 80 million copies sold of Diary of a Smiling Cat during the ceremony.
- Yang Hongying’s fan Amanda Yao shared presentation showing her love to Yang’s books since her childhood.
- Mr. James Bryant and Ms. Jiang Yanping are invited to present. Jim shared the news that Jiang Boyan has licensed the audiobook rights outside of China for the entire new series. This may in fact be the first time in the history of Chinese publishing that the global audiobook rights for outside of China have been sold prior to the release of the actual books.
- Ms. Pan Wen told the journalist, “Nowadays, by developing and exporting more multimedia products, we can realize “going out” with diversity, and let readers understand Chinese books and Chinese culture more intuitively and vividly, and realize the in-depth development and full utilization of publishing resources.”
Remarks at 2019 CCBF (November 15th - 17th)
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