2014年，騰訊以50億人民幣收購了當時中國網文(網絡文學)市場的主導者盛大文學，將其與騰訊文學整合成為如今的閱文集團。用戶主要通過平臺 APP下載試讀后進行網文購買，從而繼續閱讀。閱文的2億用戶可享用平臺超過1000萬的藏書資源。如今，這一付費閱讀的規模和接受度都已經取得了長足的發展。作為內地網絡文學行業的領軍者和主導者，閱文集團于11月8日在香港聯合交易所主板上市。對于中國整個文化產業市場而言，網絡文學市場的出現和發展在相當大程度上影響了影視、網游、漫畫等文化產業的發展。據悉，一些暢銷小說已經計劃植入熱門游戲和影視作品當中。網文市場能否開啟中國文學的新篇章？我們拭目以待。

Bestseller: China Literature's IPO

① It looks to be a love story.

② Today China's most popular provider of fiction-for-phones will book over $1bn in a flotation on Hong Kong's stock exchange.

③ Retail stock was subscribed 600 times over; investors expect a valuation of above $6bn.

④ They hope to help write the next chapters of China Literature—as affluent young Chinese become more willing to pay for them.

⑤ The novel platform， where every month 200m feast on a library of close to 10m novels on their smartphones， offers the first pages of some works for free， then charges to read on.

⑥ The 6m authors who write for the repository serialise works and adapt plotlines based on readers' comments.

⑦ And there is a real-life twist: its majority stakeholder is Tencent， a gaming-and-social-media behemoth that wants to expand its entertainment empire.

⑧ Bestselling novels are already being made into hit games， films and dramas， reaping juicy licensing fees.

⑨ Expect a page-turner.

生詞好句：

IPO:首次公開募股(Initial Public Offerings)

flotation /fl???te??(?)n/: n.發行股票

subscribe /s?b?skr??b/: vt.訂購、認購(股票等)

affluent /?afl??nt/: adj.富裕的

feast on:盡情享用

feast /fi?st/: n.盛宴；(感官)享受

repository /r??p?z?t(?)ri/: n.存放處；信息庫

serialize /?s??r??l??z/: vt.連載

behemoth /b??hi?m?θ//?bi?h??m??θ/: n.龐然大物

hit /h?t/: n.風靡一時

reap /ri?p/: vt.收割；收獲

juicy /?d?u?si/: adj.多汁的；利潤豐厚的

licensing fees: n.許可費；知識產權費