The arrival of the Year of the Snake coincides with an upturn in sales impact from Web novels in China’s fiction lists.
(29 Jan 2025) Our associates at Beijing OpenBook tell us that the impact of Web novels is being felt even more than before in the Chinese market, a newly influential dynamic tracked in December’s charts.
There’s a surprising range to these books—fantasy, campus fiction, modern romance, historical romance, and mystery finding specific favor among a younger subset of the consumer base.
Publishing Perspectives has the news in full.