'Crisis and Changes': Insights From Beijing OpenBook's Conference
With physical retail plummeting and even digital retail growth slowing, 2020 became the first year in which Beijing OpenBook tracked a downturn in the Chinese book market since 2000. At the train station in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, on January 10. Image – iStockphoto: Robert Wray Overall 2020 Downturn in China: 5.08 Percent The annual conference produced by Beijing OpenBook—familiar to our readers for its research in our China bestsellers series—this year has reflected, predictably, on the instability of a unique year. Titled “Crisis and Changes,” the 2020 report on China’s book m...
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