7月25日，亚马逊中国发布2017年年中图书排行榜，包括纸质书及Kindle付费电子书畅销榜、纸质书及Kindle付费电子书新书榜、以及多维度的阅读城市榜。
Amazon China, one of the largest online booksellers, unveiled the bestselling books in China for the first half of 2017 on Tuesday, disclosing Chinese people’s reading habits.
亚马逊中国是全球最大的在线书商之一，周二公布了2017年上半年中国最畅销的图书，也从侧面揭示了中国人的阅读习惯。
Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s Miracles of the Namiya General Store topped the list of the most popular paper books, followed by late Chinese writer Yang Jiang’s We Three and Israeli historian Yuval Noah’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
日本作家東野圭吾的《解忧杂货店》荣登最受欢迎纸质书的榜首，紧随其后的是中国已故作家杨绛的《我们仨》和以色列历史学家尤瓦尔.赫拉利的《未来简史》。
In the list of paid eBooks on Kindle, the top three places were taken by Chinese writer Zhou Meisen’s In the Name of the People, Keigo Higashino’s Miracles of the Namiya General Store and Fall of Giants – book one of British author Ken Follett’s historical Century Trilogy.
在Kindle上的付费电子书列表中，前三名是中国作家周梅森的《人民的名义》、東野圭吾的《解忧杂货店》、肯.福莱特的《巨人的陨落》(“世纪三部曲”的第一部)。
Amazon has also released a ranking of Chinese cities where people read most. Hefei and Zhengzhou occupy the first and second spot respectively for the second straight year. The ranking was based on the ratio of books sales compared to the volume of all products sold on Amazon during the first six months of the year.
亚马逊还发布了一份中国最爱阅读城市榜。合肥和郑州分别蝉联第一和第二的位置。该排名依据各城市图书销量占今年前六个月亚马逊总销售量比例计算。
Hit TV shows boost book sales
热播电视节目促进图书销售
Popular TV dramas have prompted the surge in sales of the original books.
受欢迎的电视剧推动了原著作品销量激增。
In the Name of the People, an anti-corruption novel, has become the most favored choice on Kindle’s paid eBooks and the eighth popular printed book in Amazon.
反贪小说《人民的名义》，分别位居亚马逊年中纸书畅销榜第八位和Kindle付费电子书畅销榜的冠军位置。
The company has attributed the sales boom to the novel’s smash TV adaptation, which went viral online in March. Statistics show the purchases of the book’s e-version increased 24 times three months after its screening, and printed copies surged 12 times.
该公司将这一销售热潮归因于小说的荧幕化，同名电视剧3月份在网上热映。统计数据显示，这本书的电子版本在放映后3个月增加了24倍，印刷拷贝数量激增12倍。
Hong Kong author Isabel Nee Yeh-su’s The First Half of My Life is another example. The recent TV adaption of the novel caused a book buying craze in China. Purchases of the book’s hard copies rose 600 times a week after the TV play was aired earlier this month.
香港作家亦舒的小说《我的前半生》是另一个例子。最近同名电视剧的上映在中国掀起了一股购书狂潮，在电视剧上映后一周后，《我的前半生》纸书的销量相比此前增长600多倍。
