{"id":3996,"date":"2011-11-05T20:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2011-11-05T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T01:07:54","slug":"web-literature-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Web literature in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a story in the Guardian I discovered that online reading is taking off in China. According to China Daily story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/cndy\/2011-03\/28\/content_12234103.htm\">Web literature turns a page with profitable storyline<\/a> a large percentage of Chinese web users are reading long serialized novels for a 30-50 cents per 100,000 words (which is about a dollar for every 600-1000 pages!) The Guardian story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2011\/nov\/04\/china-future-publishing\">Has China found the future of publishing? <\/a>suggests that the convenience, the price, the type of serialized literature, the economic model (of independent authors and commercial sites), and the proliferation of e-readers has made it a viable business. I&#8217;m guessing that serialization is a way of discouraging pirates &#8211; people who want the next chapter will pay to get it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story in the Guardian I discovered that online reading is taking off in China. According to China Daily story, Web literature turns a page with profitable storyline a large percentage of Chinese web users are reading long serialized novels for a 30-50 cents per 100,000 words (which is about a dollar for every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web literature in China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-computing","category-hypertext-fiction","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}