Chinese readers increasingly prefer English books to translations

http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/49161/nl
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/english/news/2013-08/27/content_563607.htm
2013-August-27


    Chinese readers increasingly prefer English books to translations

The growing popularity of English books in China was described as a 
"surge" by Zhao Wei, publisher at an international publishing house 
based in Beijing. Zhao was once manager of the China division of Random 
House, the largest general-interest book publisher 
<http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/english/news/2013-08/27/content_563607.htm#> 
in the world
.......
"We have sustained losses from pirated books, but at the same time it 
tells us that China is a large potential market," she said.


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