Paper Industry News
More people are reading on screens not on paper
Friday, 07, May 2010
The value of the digital publishing industry surpassed that of the traditional publishing industry last year for the first time in China, according to a blue book on the cultural industry released on Thursday.The scale of the digital publishing industry hit an unprecedented high of 75 billion yuan ($11 billion) last year, up by 40 percent year on year, the blue book said."Online books, cell phone books and digital books have become popular among Chinese readers," Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Cultural Research Center under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said at a press conference.
The country's cultural industry totaled about 800 billion yuan in 2009, according to an annual report on the industry's development released by Social Sciences Academic Press on Thursday.The report says most of China's publishing houses have started producing of digital books.About 75 percent of newspapers have launched online papers and 55 percent of them are providing SMS (short message service) news, the report says.
