Market revenue in 2024 | USD 16.2 billion |
Market revenue in 2030 | USD 22.2 billion |
Growth rate | 5.5% (CAGR from 2025 to 2030) |
Largest segment | Educational |
Fastest growing segment | Mystery |
Historical data | 2018 - 2023 |
Base year | 2024 |
Forecast period | 2025 - 2030 |
Quantitative units | Revenue in USD billion |
Market segmentation | Science, Historical, Mystery, Fantasy, Literary, Contemporary /Realistic, Romance, Educational, Comic, Others (classics, biographies) |
Key market players worldwide | News Corp Class A, Paramount Global Class A, Pearson PLC, Scholastic Corp, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Marvel Entertainment, Morris Publishing Group, IDW Publishing, Hachette Book Group |
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Educational was the largest segment with a revenue share of 32.72% in 2024. Horizon Databook has segmented the China books market based on science, historical, mystery, fantasy, literary, contemporary /realistic, romance, educational, comic, others (classics, biographies) covering the revenue growth of each sub-segment from 2018 to 2030.
According to a study conducted by OpenBook in 2020, the top selling category in the first half of the year were children’s books, which composed 28.85% of all sales, while the physical stores' bestselling category was study aids, with 31.45% of physical sales.
Chinese readers have begun to move away from traditional brick-and-mortar stores, encouraged by new technologies. Online recommendation has become such an important mechanism that more and more publishers consider WeChat the most efficient way to sell books.
Apart from popular online bookstores like Taobao, JD, and Dangdang, WeChat has become an indispensable promotional and sales channel for publishers.
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