One for the books

Sales go up in China, driven by e-commerce and demand for textbooks and educational literature, Xing Yi reports.

Educational books and textbooks dominated China's online book sales in 2018, thanks to the convenience brought about by the country's booming e-commerce, according to industry reports.

China's overall book market in 2018 reached a value of 89.4 billion yuan ($13.22 billion), up 11.3 percent from 2017, according to an annual report released by the Beijing-based research firm, Openbook, on Jan 9.