Dangdang
Once billed as the future Amazon of China, DangDang is now just a minor player in the country’s e-commerce market. But its focus on e-readers and literature should put it in a good position as ebooks and ereaders get more popular in the country.
Amazon to shut down Kindle e-book store in China
As of 2017, China was already the world’s biggest market for Kindle.
Thao Lam La · · 2 min read
The new niches in China’s ecommerce market
Alibaba’s sales is only 5 percent of total retail in China and JD.com’s sales of electronics products represent about 2 percent to 5 percent of total electronics retail as well,
Frank Tong · · 2 min readWho’s China’s top retailer? It’s actually an ecommerce site that doesn’t own a single store
Alibaba’s Tmall, China’s largest online retail marketplace, beat all traditional retail giants to head a new list of China’s top retailers.
Julia Q. Zhu · · 2 min readAs world awaits Alibaba IPO, China’s ecommerce spending grows to $74 billion in Q1
New figures out today show that spending on China’s ecommerce sites keeps growing, hitting a grand total of RMB 446.44 billion (US$74.03 billion) in Q1 2014.
Steven Millward · · 3 min read
5 best free Android apps in China for all your mobile mass media
Anyone who has ever ridden the subway in Beijing knows the Chinese love to consume content on their smartphones. But because of censorship or geolocking, many of the apps used
Paul Bischoff · · 3 min readChina’s e-commerce market to hit $71 billion in sales in Q2; these are the top 10 e-stores
China’s e-shoppers now number over 240 million, who collectively spend an average of $40,000 per second. But the nation’s e-commerce boom is far from hitting its peak. New statistics from
Steven Millward · · 2 min readMobile Commerce Worth $4.29 Billion in Q1 in China, But One Company Dominates
We know that mobile commerce in China was worth $7.8 billion in 2012 – and is expected to rise to $41.4 billion in 2015 – but who are the biggest
Steven Millward · · 2 min readDangdang to Release E-Reader with Hybrid Touch/E-ink Screen in May
Dangdang CEO Li Guoqing It seems Dangdang is mentioned less and less these days in conversations about China’s major e-commerce players. In fact, the most recent time we mentioned the
C. Custer · · 2 min readCheck Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. 2013
Steven Millward · · 3 min readBy 2016, China Will Have 423 Million E-Commerce Shoppers Spending $457 Billion [INFOGRAPHIC]
Regular readers will already know that there are now over 200 million Chinese e-commerce shoppers who are spending about $40,000 per second. But with over half a billion people online
Steven Millward · · 2 min read