Reprint of questionable quality gets Good Book Award Concerns over copyright infringement and the lazy quality of a reprint of a 1996 book, which was given the Good Book Award 2014, have tarnished the image of both the publishing house and the prize.   The reprint and original book In the memoirs of Professor Nguyen Tu Chi, eight of his students collected his research and put it together in a book called "Contribution to research on culture and peoples". The book was jointly published in 1996 by Vietnam Culture and Information Publishing House and Art and Culture Magazine. On September 11, the Institute for Research on Educational Development held the Good Book Award Ceremony, and honoured the second edition of the same book, re-published by Thoi Dai Publishing House in 2013. A week later, a number of researchers complained that the second edition was sloppily reprinted and may even violate copyright rules. The second edition also appears to have typos and missing content. Professor Bui Xuan Dinh, one of the eight students who worked on the original print, said the name of the book was also changed from "Contribution to research on culture and peoples" to "The culture of the Vietnamese people'. He said, "The first edition had two parts: the first contain Nguyen Tu Chi's works themselves and the second contains the opinions and thoughts of the students about their mentor. The new edition omitted the second part and the table of contents is missing. Moreover, Thoi Dai Publishing House didn't ask our opinions before reprinting the book," said Dinh. The deputy director of Thoi Dai Publishing House said, "Because our partner said they already had the proper documents and authorisation, we just went to work on the project." Even though the publishing house has not admitted any wrongdoing, they withdrew the book from circulation while checking on copyrighted material. Bui Van Nam Son, a board member of the Good Book Award Ceremony 2014, apologised to readers for awarding the prize to the wrong edition. "The board members had all read the first edition. This is the reason that, when our secretary named a work about the culture and peoples written by professor Nguyen Tu Chi, we agreed to award it immediately, without noticing the differences. We didn't know it had been reprinted with such poor quality." After the incident, they corrected the name of the book on their website portal. dtinews.vn