China's Book Publishing Industry

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Most of the above-mentioned nine categories have experienced double-digit growth in output value in the last few years, indicating growing demand for books in these categories. One outstanding category is economy which experienced significant growth in demand due to China’s vigorously developing economy. Output value for the category of economy increased significantly by 30.6 percent in 2002, compared to growth rates of 12 percent in 2001 and 18.2 percent in 2000. Demand for economy related books is expected to continue its strong growth in the coming years in China.  

  FIGURE 2-4:  Growth of output values of nine categories, 2000-2002

Source: GAPP

The average price of books published in China was RMB7.79 in 2002, up from RMB7.40 in 2001 and RMB6.86 in 2000.  The following table shows the average price of books by category in 2002.

TABLE 2-4: Average per copy price by category, 2002