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Finger slide screens to change chapters, device vibrating tips update, headphones automatically replay last progress, multiple-end synchronized bookmark locations the easyness of digital reading, intelligent services are deeply reshaping people's access to knowledge and constantly changing the environment of reading for all。
On 23 april, at the fourth national reading congress, held in shanxi taiwon, the most recent chinese digital reading report for 2024 showed that our digital reading market had a total revenue of 66,141 million yuan in 2024, reaching 670 million users。
Smart terminals are rapidly upgraded and digital reading is within reach。
On 23 april, readers experienced a sculptural printing at the 4th universal reading congress, “the millennium story of the year”. Xinhua news agency journalist yang sunlight
User break:
Intergenerational integration re-reading
By 2024, digital readers had reached the target of “one billion more” at a rate of 17. 52 per cent, with both the volume and the rate of growth rising in recent years, and digital reading had become an important engine of reading for all。
Every morning, at 7 a. M., retired workers liu qing opens the reading software and clicks on the voice of ai to read and repeat his history at 1. 25 times; at night, liu qing views the contents of food and nutrients via a television view。
“the demand for digital reading has increased significantly among the group with silver hair. It is not necessary to look at the sound reading of the screen for a long time, so that it is becoming the preferred mode of choice for middle-aged users with ease and health。
The report shows that the number of readers between the ages of 26 and 35 continues to be the majority, with nearly 60 per cent of users aged 26 and over。
“digital reading is permeating into a more mature age class through youth-oriented structures.” zhang yijun, first vice-president of the chinese association for audio-visual and digital publishing, said that the middle-aged and old-age groups already had a wealth of life experience and a greater focus on spiritual and cultural needs, more than ever on reading to enrich themselves。
Technology empowerment:
Smart interactive remodeling of reading patterns
The report shows that the services of the digital-reading industry have been continuously upgraded, intelligent terminals have been rapidly upgraded, and digital-reading platforms continue to enhance the use of barrier-free technologies in reading ecology。
Readers after 00 say that digital reading has brought important changes to knowledge acquisition and social life. “when looking at the obscure and incomprehensible content of the book, it is not necessary to reflect on it alone, but to start with the excellent comments and interpretations of the bookmate. Real-time thermal assessment and ai view grouping, which translates deep reading into intellectual creativity."。
At the same time, advanced ai technology is deeply involved in reading scenes: the beijing city library has launched a project called the "message of the mesmos", which provides access to the online "ai-assisted reading" that enables the search of books, the reading of books, the use of the entire book scene, and the introduction of the "psychological" smart matrix to intellectualize the entire chain of reading services
The synergy of ip industrial chains breaks the traditional reading boundaries. Today, readers are no longer limited to simple textual reading, and cultural content is presented in a much richer form。
The governor of the chinese association for audio-visual and digital publishing, sun suyama, said that the application of artificial intelligence technology, represented by deepseek, provided greater scope for the digital publishing industry in china, including digital reading. “the trend towards the digitization of texts, the visualization of books and the networking of readings is becoming more pronounced, and digital reading is rapidly evolving in the direction of multimodular, multi-end, multi-scenario scenarios.”
Multiple content:
The internet goes out to build cultural bridges
According to the report, the total number of digitally read works in our country in 2024 was over 63 million, an increase of 6. 31 per cent over the same period。
It's interesting to know what kind of book readers would prefer to have a one-key collection of reading data
In terms of e-books preferences, literature remains the preferred choice of readers. There has been a significant increase in the content of education and culture, which is nearly 10 percentage points higher than in the same period last year. In addition, there has been a marked increase in the proportion of people's biography, cooking and tourism。
The theme category is increasingly popular with readers. The number of thematic items on the acoustic reading platform is over 470,000 (species) and on the other digital reading platforms over 240,000 (species). The number of hits, downloads, browsings and readings related to subject reading exceeded 200 billion。
“this change reflects two important trends. On the one hand, the reader's need for reading is increasingly diverse and differentiated, while the awareness of lifelong learning for the entire population continues to grow and the need for knowledge-based reading rises; on the other hand, the growing cultural self-confidence continues to boost the reader's attachment to traditional cultural content.” zhang yijun said。
Another topic of concern is digital reading, which continues to explore the path of “off to sea”。
According to the report, in 2024, the total number of products read out of the sea was 80. 84 million, an increase of 6. 03 per cent over the previous year。
Since 2024, online literature such as jubilee year (2nd quarter) with phoenix, da bong gang man, has been re-engineered overseas, and jubilee year (2nd quarter) has become the most popular chinese mainland drama ever aired by a popular media platform under the banner of disney。
Today, online literature is the largest source of ip for chinese cultural products. “at the end of 2024, 6,800 chinese internet translations were launched overseas, and 700,000 originals were launched abroad, covering more than 200 countries and regions。
China's digital reading works are accelerating to the global level, displaying the unique charisma of chinese culture and creating new paths of intercultural understanding。
The day of light (2404/09th edition, 2025)
