47 What is the best title for this passage?
(A)Book Censorship in China
(B)The Internet is Changing Chinese Literature
(C)Internet Censorship in China
(D)How to Sell Books Online in China
統計: A(19), B(185), C(38), D(5), E(0) #926597
詳解 (共 2 筆)
censorship翻譯:審查,審查制度。
“I can’t identify any popular literary trend that didn’t originate online,” says Jo Lusby of Penguin China.
Although e-readers are still scarce稀有, the Internet has greatly affected reading habits.
Chinese people increasingly read books on phones, tablets and laptops.
People under 30, who are most likely to own such devices, are the most avid熱衷 readers, says Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based publishing consultant顧問.
The result has been an outpouring湧現 of mass-market fiction小說, written (and read) on websites, not in print.
Five years ago Internet publishers were typically informal非正式, back-room outfits, but Shanda, an online gaming company, seized the commercial opportunity and now owns most of the literary sites.
It sells subscriptions訂閱 by the chapter or book, by the week or month.
Online novels start at around five yuan ($0.80) compared with 30 yuan for an average printed印刷 volume量.
Some of the newly popular online genres風格, such as romance, exist everywhere.
Others could be termed稱 fiction小說 with Chinese characteristics特色.
Some of this online material makes it into book form.
Print sales, dominated控制 by the country’s 580 state-owned publishing houses, are now worth 44 billion yuan ($7 billion), but growth has slowed from 10% a year in 2007 to around 5%, according to Yang Wei of OpenBook, a market-research firm.
Like many online starts-ups, Shanda is not yet making money out of Web books, although revenues收益 are growing.
The Internet has also changed the way that books are promoted.
China has relatively few bookshops so cultural networking sites such as Douban.com have proved good at targeting new readers.
Few writers make much money, online or in print.
The handful of stylish novelists who do have become celebrities.
Han Han, a 29-year-old novelist turned racing-car driver, has a popular blog.
Mr. Han rose to fame名氣 cleverly巧妙 tweaking稍稍改進 the authorities權威 without running foul犯規 of the censors審查員.
Today’s edgy前衛 writers, such as Murong Xuecun, can steer引導 around the censors with their online writing, then make necessary cuts in their print editions.
Most authors give the censors no trouble.
They know where the line is drawn底線.