China now has 253 million people online compared to 223 million in the U.S., according to stats picked up by AP. You bet this has e-book implications.
I’d love to hear from publishers and others on the market for translations for E in China. Size of the opportunity? What are the pros and cons? Is it possible the market might be worth wooing despite the copyright risks? Any chance of sales to Chinese libraries? Or does China want everything one way? "We sell, you buy"—in this case, hardware.
Related: China: The next E-Book Central. Some might say it already is. Image above is of a Asian-conceived e-book reader.
Also see Chinese e-book site draws 200M page views a day: Boost for young novelists like Fu Tian. She’s shown here in a photo accompanying an NPR text-and-audio item.
