Op lives in china and just bought hunger game trilogy (published by scholastic) online. And when I was checking the copyright page something reads very interestingly appears: this edition is available for distribution in china only. Wondering the reason for such restriction, scholastic has copyright to it in most part of world if my memory didn’t go wrong, so the only reasonable one I came up with is they censored texts. Unsure if they did. If they really did, does anyone know which part they censored?
That’s probably the case. In many Asian countries, local publishers/sellers have contract with the original publishers to print and sell the book in their own and a few neighbouring countries. These books are commonly stamped with such messages, specifying which countries that book can be sold in. Most foreign books available in India have a notice saying that they are only to be sold in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and occasionally Sri Lanka or Mayanmar. This has nothing to do with censorship.