Unlike the 2018 Amazon bestseller list, in which eight out of 10 books were published in the same year, only 10% of China’s bestselling books were published in 2018. According to a survey, 83% of the books sold in China in 2018 were not published in that year and almost 32% of the books were published in the preceding three years. While these statistics suggest that Chinese readers prefer secondhand books, in reality few Chinese book lovers would buy a used book as their first choice as many associate secondhand books with dirty appearance and discolored, dog-ear pages. It was in su...
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