By Wuping Zhao SHANGHAI: Mr. Jung-Wen Wang, president of Yuan-liou Publishing company, is not the only publisher to embrace the e-reader market in Taiwan. However, he is leading the way by providing the market with a unique Yuan-Liou Jin Yong Reader, which comes pre-loaded the complete works of Jin Yong (Louis Cha), the most popular kung fu novelist among the …
Should Publishers Intervene When Pirated Copies “Outsell” Official Versions?
By Edward Nawotka In today’s lead story, Lewis Manalo discusses the career of Chinese writer Louis Cha, whose wuxia novels are immensely popular across Asia — one estimate says that more than billion copies of his books have been read. That said, official sales number a mere 300 million or so, with the remainder being made up by pirated copies …
The Billion Copy Opportunity
By Lewis Manalo CHINA: By now it’s a scene we in the West are familiar with: a swordsman or — swordswoman — makes an acrobatic leap to a stone-tiled rooftop and sets off in pursuit of a masked bandit. The swordsman leaps from roof to roof, across ridiculous distances and with such balletic grace, he seems to be on the edge …