Digital book readers exceed 500 million

Good habitPeople reading at a bookstore on World Book Day on Saturday in Congtai District of Handan, north Hebei province. — Xinhua

THE number of digital book readers in China reached 506 million in 2021, up 2.43% year on year, according to an industry report.

The overall scale of China’s digital reading market reached 41.57 billion yuan (RM26.8bil), marking a year-on-year growth of 18.23%, according to the China digital readership report 2021.