Last week the China Bookstore Conference released its latest figures, showing that there are more than 70,000 bricks & mortar bookstores in the country. As everywhere, some stores opened while others closed, but in China the 2019 ratio was stacked in the favour of new stores opening, with more than 4,000 new stores emerging while … Continue reading China has more than 70,000 bookstores, fuelling the prospect that China is now the world’s largest book market