Reading outside the library: how the Internet has affected reading in China
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2005
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Information Development
Abstract
Edited version of a paper presented at the World
Library and Information Congress, 69th IFLA
General Conference, Berlin, Germany, 1–8
August 2003. There are already more than 20.83
million host computers and 59.10 million Internet
users in China. Most of them get access to the
Internet at home, office or school, and a few at the
library. Their needs for e-books or science and
education are among what they mostly searched
for through the Internet. It has been predicated
that a lot of reading is done outside the library.
How has the Internet been used to encourage
reading in China? This paper looks at three
noticeable ways starting from news online, digital
journals and e-books, the printed editions of
which are the main categories of traditional
publications. It is also pointed out what would improve reading further, and how traditional
publishing and libraries have been affected.
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Internet, Reading, China
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Badu, E. E., & Markwei, E. D. (2005). Reading outside the library: how the Internet has affected reading in China. Information Development, 20(3), 260-68