![]() ![]() The 2016 TV drama Dr Qin Medical Examiner created a huge fan following across the nation. Online literature has created a whole industrial chain, including books, movies, TV plays and games. It has brought the universe of books to our fingertips, and transformed the solitary act of reading into something far more social,” said You Ting It makes it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. ![]() “It has changed the way we read, we write and sell books in profound ways. In 2015, about 64 per cent of adults read digitally, up 5.9 per cent compared with 2014, while 58.4 per cent read paper books, only 0.4 per cent increase, according to an annual survey conducted by Chinese Academy of Press and Publication. New technology has accelerated books’ migration to digital arena. The iReader was created eight years ago and has 600 million users, 20 million of whom use it every day, according to a report published at the 2016 World Internet Conference by Zhang Lingyun, founder of iReader. “To share their writing with online readers on iReader would-be authors just need to register with one of the literature websites,” he added. But the digital platform offers a way for writing enthusiasts to share their work,” said You Ting, the vice-president of iReader, China’s leading brand for digital reading, at a cultural event in Beijing on Dec 30, 2016. “Not many people who are fond of writing actually end up getting their work published, whether as books, or in magazines or newspapers. In 2011, she became more popular across the country when the TV series Naked Wedding, based on her novel, became a hit.ĭespite her popularity, Tang continues to post her works online, because she has found internet “a very good place to let people know your work, especially publishers and readers”. Tang greatly inspired by this success has been working as an online writer since then. Luckily, her first novel was well accepted and ranked in the top three on the website. In 2009, Tang started by posting her stories on Hongxiu Tianxiang website, China’s largest community of fiction lovers online. However, it was her passion for writing that made her quit her job and started to write novels online. Tang majored in economics and began working as an analyst in Shanghai after graduation. The TV drama Dr Qin Medical Examiner created a huge fan following across the nation which was adapted from doctor-turned-writer Qin Ming’s online fiction novel The 11th Finger.īEIJING: It has been eight years since Tang Xintian, a post-1980s woman in Beijing, started working as a freelance writer. Online literature in China has spawned a large number of books, movies, TV plays and games. ![]()
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