Sharma's second novel, Family Life, took more than 12 years to write. Telling the story of a family wrought by...
Day: April 27, 2014
Writing for The Hindu, Lakshmi Krupa says: “Think Tamil literature. Think rich texts. We know we carry with us a treasure trove...
China's book retail sales boomed in 2013, with online sales exceeding 16 billion yuan (2.56billion U.S. dollars), a 30 percent year-on-year increase, according to a report published bythe People's Daily on Thursday. The report was jointly issued by China Central Television, the People's Daily, book-selling websites, and Horizon Research Constancy Group. (more…)
"As an English major in college, I found a lot more to read from the Internet in the late 1990s, though I prefer to read on paper," said Wang. Now the 39-year-old Wang works as a financial consultant during the day, but at night he has another life as a web writer. (more…)
Digital devices are becoming the main channel that peoplechoose to read and get daily news, according to a survey of taxipassengers in Shanghai, where bookshops are trying hard toattract customers. China Daily conducted a poll of 169,122 people withTouchmedia, China's leading in-taxi media company, from April1 to 10. (more…)
Faced with the pressure from e-books, the publishing industry isundergoing a revolution in the way they produce paper books -upgrading the binding and layout to turn books into collectoritems, say booksellers and publishing industry observers. "E-books make it convenient for readers to access the contentbut they have little value for collection. So the traditionalpublishing industry should focus on adding to the value ofprinted books," says Seiichi Mizuno, an adviser for culturalinstitutes in Japan and former president of the Seibu DepartmentStores in Tokyo. (more…)
Reading books is becoming increasingly popular among Chinese adult, but newspapers and magazines are falling out of favor, according to survey results released on Monday. Polling 40,600 adults in 29 provincial-level regions, an annual survey on reading habits found that they read 4.77 paper books and 2.48 digital ones in a year, up 0.38 and 0.13 respectively. (more…)
Chinese Internet company Tencent announced that its Internet literature business will implement independent operation as a subsidiary and Wu Wenhui...
China: Sina suspends its literature site after authorities publicize finding of pornographic content
Sina.com temporarily closed its literature site Friday after being accused of hosting pornography, and authorities confirmed they were revoking two...
It was with fanfare and a crowded hall that the second Islamabad Literature Festival opened at Margalla Hotel on Friday...
