中國網絡文學讀者已達3.5億 你也在其中麼?

On the subways in Beijing, most people stare at their smartphones. Some play video games or watch TV dramas, while some choose to read.

在北京地鐵上，大多數人都會盯着他們的手機看。一些人玩遊戲或者追劇，同時也有一些人選擇閱讀。

Online novels are popular among these readers. In fact, more people are becoming registered users on online literature websites or smartphone applications.

網絡小說在這些讀者中特別受歡迎。實際上，有更多人成爲網絡小說網站上或者手機應用上的註冊用戶。

The total number of online literature websites users increased to 352 million by the end of June 2017, according to the latest report from China Internet Network Information Center. This shows half of all netizens are online literature readers.

通過中國互聯網網絡信息中心最新的報告，截止到2017年6月末，網絡文學網站用戶已增加到3.52億人次。這表明有過半網民都是網絡文學讀者。

Many scholars estimate the number will keep increasing at an annual rate of tens of millions.

許多學者預估稱，這項數字將會以每年增長數千萬的速率持續增長。

Yet the fast growth due to the widespread adoption of internet and smartphones in the past 20 years was criticized by some writers as a disorder.

但是在過去二十年間，智能手機和互聯網的普及所帶來的網絡文學的迅猛發展，被部分作家視爲胡鬧。

As the number of online literature works increases, a large variety of light pornographic online novels under the deceptive cover of "romance" and "fantasy" appeared.

隨着網絡文學作品數量增多，一大波打着羅曼蒂克和奇幻旗號的淫穢色情網絡輕小說也出現了。

Such works, often with similar, catchy titles, also contain similarly vulgar content. A genre of them was even nicknamed the "My Bossy Boss" series, all about rich womanizers and poor "Cinderellas".

這類作品，經常採用一些吸引人的標題，也同樣包含低俗內容。有一類標題甚至叫《我的霸道總裁》，所有的內容都是有關一些有錢的花花公子和貧窮的灰姑娘。

Writer Ning Ken, the top prize winner of the First Online Literature Contest and deputy-editor of the magazine October (Shi Yue), said online literature needs guidance.

第一屆網絡文學比賽的冠軍、《十月》雜誌的責任編輯作家寧肯稱，網絡文學需要引導。

"The quick development of online literature is beyond my imagination. It is going in a direction that is out of my expectation as well," the writer said. "I think it should be something with high quality, rather than a sort of entertainment. Its quality should be improved."

寧肯表示：“網絡文學的高速發展遠超乎我的想象，同時它的發展趨勢也超乎我的意料。我認爲它應該是高質量的，而不僅是一種消遣。網文的質量有待提高。”

However, some writers praised the blooming of online literature.

但是，也有一些作家對網絡文學的興起持肯定態度。

"As an online writer, I am happy about the past history of online literature. Thought it may develop in a disorderly way, it has a strong vitality. Online literature will have higher quality as time goes," Yin Xun said.

殷尋表示：“身爲一名網文作者，對於網絡文學的歷史進程而感到高興。儘管可能以比較混亂無序的方式而發展，但是生命力頑強，網文也將隨着時間發展而提高質量。”