The article is based on ... online survey (by the China Youth Daily), so don't consider the numbers or findings too reliable, but it's still interesting to hear that, as Xinhua reports, Readers find online literature unsatisfactory: survey.
Online reading -- of longer works of fiction -- is much bigger in China than the US, as readers still seem to be more likely to actually read full texts posted online (rather than reading them on dedicated e-readers). But the experience sounds similar to that of American readers wading through the the many self-published e-books flooding the markets:
Also interesting -- though it's unclear if this is a different or the same survey:
Online reading -- of longer works of fiction -- is much bigger in China than the US, as readers still seem to be more likely to actually read full texts posted online (rather than reading them on dedicated e-readers). But the experience sounds similar to that of American readers wading through the the many self-published e-books flooding the markets:
However, only 20 percent in the survey said they are satisfied with the quality of books available online and more than 30 percent said they think most online novels are not of top quality but inferior pieces of work.(That actually doesn't seem that bad a percentage -- what percentage of print books would the average reader consider to be: "not of top quality", after all .....)
Also interesting -- though it's unclear if this is a different or the same survey:
According to a recent survey, Chinese people read 4.39 paper books, 77.20 newspapers, 6.56 magazines and 2.35 e-books on average last year. The latter increased by 65.5 percent year on year.