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Originally Posted by elcreative
Even more interesting when you look a bit further than that single article by an eBook evangelist... every other source I looked at, shows eBook sales of around 4 million (3.82 to be more precise) so far in 2010. Now someones figures must be a bit distorted as I somehow doubt sales with an average book price of $3000 (do the math).
Most analysts say the market is growing but, like all other countries, the eReader price needs to drop a little further to fuel serious growth.
Now if he's talking about hardware then again that isn't China's publishing industry but hardware business... and much of the manufactured product is for export.
Nice article but distinctly wooly in hard fact if you try to cross-ref elsewhere.  |
Irrespective of any arithmetic travesties, I find it very interesting that China's digital publishing industry is booming so.
I kind of assumed that most of the e-book readers used in the West - like so many other things, such as my Sony readers - are made in China, but what I found intriguing is that so many companies are manufacturing readers in that part of Asia, alone.
Whether or not education e-book prices need to drop further, to fuel serious growth of digital publishing in China, is far too hairy a subject for me to dream of commenting on. However, perhaps some other contributors will feel qualified to throw more light on the mammoth subject.
