So says Danwei, reporting that a Canadian print-on-demand company called Newspaperdirect is claiming to have inked an agreement with Beijing-based Founder Easiprint that will allow it to print and distribute foreign newspapers in China.  Newspaperdirect says that this agreement will allow it to print and distribute a host of famous newspapers from its stable, including the NYT, WP, WSJ and more. 

 If true, this would be huge news, and a sea-change for foreign publishing in China.  It is, however, hard to fathom that these newspapers will be popping up on newsstands across the country any time soon.  After all, it is just a few months since the Chinese version of Rolling Stone had its licence revoked after publishing only one issue.

Until recently, foreign publications that wanted to launch on the Chinese market had to set up a "joint venture" with a local publisher and use that publisher’s licence to publish their magazine.   But at the moment even that avenue is now closed, since the government announced  an indefinite moratorium on these joint venture publications earlier this year.

 Nevertheless, according to Newspaperdirect, we’ll be able to get international newspapers at the corner store as early as this month.  Seems unlikely.