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The growing popularity of digital reading has encouraged best-selling young Chinese author Han Han to release(发表)his new novel on the Internet.
Ta De Guo(His Country), of which Han Han has finished only one tenth so far, will be available for paid reading from December 1st on Qidian.com, the online library has announced.
Han Han will update the story every day and finish the book before the end of the year. A printed edition will only be produced after all of the content goes online, sources said.
To read the entire book, readers will have to pay eight yuan, or 0.08 yuan per 1,000 words. This is almost four times the price of an average writer on Qidian.com.