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China Bestsellers: Double 11 Promotions and Living in an Era of Uncertainty Boost Sales

Erin L. Cox — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:30:13 +0000

OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists from November, plus a look at what international authors are selling well in China.

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China Bestsellers: Nobel Prize Boost, Aspirational Nonfiction, and Children’s Classics

Erin L. Cox — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:37:12 +0000

Beijing's OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their international, fiction, nonfiction, and children's bestseller lists.

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China Bestsellers: Energies Around Shanghai’s Book Fair

Porter Anderson — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:18:15 +0000

As the annual China Shanghai International Book Fair season arrived, Beijing's OpenBook research group had new observations to mention.

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Endangered, Indigenous Languages Featured at Shanghai’s Fair

Porter Anderson — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:14:17 +0000

The dogged problem of endangered and Indigenous languages is a major one in children's books.

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China Bestsellers: Flashes of New Titles in the Slow Season

Porter Anderson — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:49:42 +0000

Those school-driven sales of the "classics" on the mainland's reading lists have room for a couple of newer works this season.

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China Bestsellers: Summer Reading Rules the Charts

Porter Anderson — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:36:45 +0000

July's summer-reading-list among students in China may yet yield some newcomers to the mainland's bestseller lists.

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Shanghai’s 2025 Children’s Book Fair: New Exhibitors

Porter Anderson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:55:06 +0000

The China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair looks to new international markets in November's upcoming 12th iteration.

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China Bestsellers: Charts Boost Keigo Higashino and Ma Boyong

Porter Anderson — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:30:45 +0000

The mainland's June 2025 charts demonstrated some strong reader loyalty for both a Chinese and a Japanese author releasing new books.

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Interview: Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, and the Demise of Radish

Porter Anderson — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:13:53 +0000

The president of Wattpad, Aron Levitz looks at the value of 'embracing a community, embracing a fandom."

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Radish Announces the ‘Difficult Decision’ To Close

Porter Anderson — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:35:05 +0000

Less than a decade in action, one of the key 'online literature' serialization platforms, Radish, is to close on December 31.

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