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Old 05-01-2013, 12:07 AM   #22
Tonycole
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Location: Currently I live in Malaysia
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Having seen those crowds of people in every book shop in China, sitting, leaning standing, all with their noses buried in a book, I understand that reading is an activity that the Chinese really value, and in spite of all one hears about censorship and similar, there are actually an enormous number of books in every genre published in China. Further, there are literally dozens of makes of ereaders from about 10 Kwai (RMB) each up to thousands.
Also, there is currently no shortage of ebooks from what I can gather, and as with everything in the PRC, some are expensive and legal, and many are cheap and illegal. Basically with brands like Hanvon as the flagship Chinese ereader, and the 10 RMB, back-street factory models (many of which end up being sold outside China in shops like Wall Mart for much fine money), the whole ereader.ebook market in China seems to me to be extremely healthy.
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