{"id":1007,"date":"2009-03-28T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/2009\/03\/28\/online-novels-boom-in-china\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:05:05","slug":"online-novels-boom-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/28\/online-novels-boom-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Novels Boom in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chuban.qidian.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/qidiancover.jpg\" \/><\/a>In China, there&#8217;s a revolution in online novels.&nbsp; Writers are uploading their books to be read by millions of Chinese readers who pay a small amount for each book.&nbsp; The leading company offering online novels in China is Shanda Literature.&nbsp; Their site, <a href=\"http:\/\/chuban.qidian.com\/\">Qidian.com<\/a>, is the most popular destination for novel readers.&nbsp; Even regular bookstores are now offering print versions of online novels.&nbsp; Apparently, the online universe is China is relatively free of censorship and authors find themselves with more freedom to criticize.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/BUSINESS\/02\/14\/china.publishing\/index.html\">CNN article<\/a> about the online publishing boom in China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c18d69ab-043b-8755-9588-14839fed5f15\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, there&#8217;s a revolution in online novels.&nbsp; Writers are uploading their books to be read by millions of Chinese readers who pay a small amount for each book.&nbsp; The leading company offering online novels in China is Shanda Literature.&nbsp; Their site, Qidian.com, is the most popular destination for novel readers.&nbsp; Even regular bookstores are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,117],"tags":[2495,121,120,2496],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-online-literature","tag-china","tag-novel","tag-online","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In China, there&#039;s a revolution in online novels. 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