Dan Bloom has an article in TechEye about:
Taohua.com, a website that sells digital content inside Communist China, recently did something you don’t see too often in China: It apologised for selling 50,000 pirated e-books, with a statement saying all 50,231 pirated units had been removed from the online offerings.
In a web dispatch from Shanghai, publishing executive Wuping Zhao – who graduated from the prestigious Columbia University Publishing Course in New York a year ago – noted that versions of most bestsellers in China are available online as pirated e-book editions, even via mainstream portals like Baidu.com and Sina.com.
More info in the article.