As some franchise-supported titles arrive on China’s bestseller lists, more are anticipated in months to come. China’s consumer base is well accustomed to the energy of franchising, as is evident in this storefront at Tianfu International Airport near Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Beeding. Image – Getty: Vera Tikhonova By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | […]
The March bestsellers in China this year have shown a growing demand for ‘NZ2’, books about AI and DeepSeek, and revived poetry. In Anhui, an inland province in the eastern central area of China. Image – Getty: Song Yuan By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Films, AI, and ‘Modernized’ Poetry As you’ll recall, in our
The animated extravaganza ‘Ne Zha: The Past of the Three Realms’ goes to new heights with consumers, rocketing the book to No. 1. A Chinese cinema at Wanda Plaza in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Image – Getty: Jian Li Liu By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Ne Zha 2′ Blasts to No. 1’ Regular readers of
January’s China bestseller lists show business and the education that supports it drawing book consumers in a changing economy. Image Getty – ImTmPhoto By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Seven years of China Bestsellers in our Archives A Dynamic in Nonfiction and Children’s Books In an interesting article by Yoko Kubota on February
The arrival of the Year of the Snake coincides with an upturn in sales impact from Web novels in China’s fiction lists. The Year of the Snake arrived on January 20 in pre-new-year celebrations at Shanghai. Spring Festival continues through the first week of February. Image – Getty: Yanjf By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
In young people’s self-help, a November trend was spotted in specialized guidance for male and female teens in China’s market. Formerly pegged as ‘short-video’ platforms, market-influencing social media channels driving book sales in China now are being referred to as “content e-commerce channels,’ a reflection of a broadening of formats used to catch consumer attention.
US backlist sales continued to grow in share in January, Kristen McLean reports, adult fiction helping to offset sagging adult nonfiction. On Elliott Bay at Puget Sound, Washington State, January 23. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Randall Williams By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Juvenile Categories Are Soft’ In her first month’s coverage period of the
Overall book sales in China decreased in 2022, but online sales driven by TikTok and other short-video platforms are growing rapidly. At Longqing Gorge in Yanqing, January 31, during the Lunar New Year’s lantern festival. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Luchunyu By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Our monthly China bestsellers series, in association
Now with three serial adaptations either on the air or in post-production, Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ rockets up the charts. A production still with actor Luyi Zhang from the CCTV live-action adaptation of Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem,’ which began airing January 15. Image: CCTV-8 By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson CCTV’s Series Opened
In 2023’s first six weeks, the total US comics and graphic novels market is down 13 percent against 2022’s figures, per NPD’s Kristen McLean. A table of manga for sale in a bookstore. At NPD Books, Kristen McLean says that 60 percent of the year-to-date slowdown in comics and manga sales was attributed to a
