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Oscar award sparks book sales

( Chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2014-03-06 12:48:48

Director and producer Steve McQueen (R) celebrates after accepting the Oscar for best picture with Lupita Nyong'o (L) at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

The book in the US has been reprinted dozens of times. Due to the film's success, public high schools are starting to add it to their reading lists. It was only recently that the autobiography was introduced into China.

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The inextricably linked literary work and film has resulted in cross-border cooperation between the film and the publication in China, which has helped pave the way for the development of the publishing industry.

In China, the original novel can now be found in two versions.

Last year after the Oscar nomination were announced, Wen Xin Press took the lead in publishing the novel in November, 2013, with Wu Chao as the translator. And another Chinese version published by Peking University Press will come out this month. Chang Fei is the translator.

The ties between the film and publishing industries have become more closely related. The issue of The Hunger Games is a good example. The film sparked book huge sales in the US and to date, global total sales have reached 87 million copies.