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E-Books re-write the publishing industry
电子书改写传统出版行业
Meet Taran Matharu, this 24-year-old Londoner is part of a new generation of young authors rewriting the traditional code of publishing by going on line to find their fan bases rather than in the library.
我们见到了Taran Matharu，这位24岁的伦敦年轻人，他是新一代作家之一，改写了传统的出版业模式，他们利用互联网，而不是在图书馆里寻找自己的读者群。
I always wanted to be an author ever since I was 9 years old. I wrote my first book when I was 9 actually. It was a dream of mine rather than something at all that can be a reality.
从9岁的时候开始我就梦想成为一名作家。实际上我9岁的时候就写了第一本书。那时，那只是一个看上去不能实现的梦想而已。
For Matharu, that dream did turn into reality in 2013, thanks to the Canadian startup Wattpad, one of the numerous story-showing sites for the catapult to names like Fifty Shades of Grey EL James.
而2013年，Matharu的梦想成为现实。这多亏了加拿大新创企业Wattpad，是供写手们发表自己的故事的诸多网站之一。
We have millions of writers sharing their works on Wattpad every day. Success means different things for different people. For most writers, on Wattpad, most important thing is the connection to the fan base. They can connect in common and interact directly with the fans.
Wattpad上每天有数百万作者分享他们的作品。对不同的人来说，成功有着不同的意义。对大部分作者来说，在Wattpad上最重要的事情就是和书迷基地的联系。他们可以经常联系，直接和书迷互动。
With 40 million month-users, growing to 100 million free uploads, Wattpad says that its mission is to democratize the written world, --- increasing literacy and changing the way today’s millennial conceive that contents.
Wattpad已经从过去的每月4000万用户增长到1亿次免费上传，Wattpad称它的任务是让写作界大众化，增加文学性，改变千禧年一代构思故事的方式。
This all comes down to 3 things: mobile, social and civilized contact. As you know, mobile is a device you carry with you all the time. For Wattpad users, they have all the entertainment they love carrying with them wherever they are.
这一切都归结为三点：手机，社交网络和文明交往。你知道，手机是你随时随地都会携带的工具。对Wattpad用户来说，无论身在何处，他们可以携带自己喜爱的任何娱乐方式。
And the numbers concerned that trend. According to PWC’s sales of Ebooks increase 25% in 2014 although the hardcopies shrank back by 2.5%.
而数字说明了这样一种趋势。根据PWC统计，2014年电子书销量上涨了25%，而实体书销量则缩减了2.5%。
The demon against Mula that is a misery.
这就像恶魔对抗穆拉的痛苦。
Also like Matharu, today’s self-publishing tools have afforded the best of those votes. His success on line has helped cling to a 3-part deal with a major publishing house. The first novel in his fantasy adventure series The Summer hits the show in May. He says it’s been translated so far into 10 languages with film rights also on the cards.
就像Matharu一样，今天的个人出版工具提供了最佳投票方式。他在互联网上获得的成功使他与出版社签订了合约。他的历险小说《夏季》登上五月份的畅销小说榜。他说，目前，他的小说已经被翻译成10种语言。电影拍摄权也正在协商中。
For me, Wattpad was my launch platform. It was how I built following how I wrote the book because as I was writing it, people were reading it and telling me what they thought. So was encouraging. And there was a lot of books set a start to our self-publishing books. And then publisher thought they were selling well. And they worked with the self-publish authors to get the book down into the stores, to improve the writing, improve the book.
对我来说，Wattpad是我的发展平台。通过这个平台，我知道我每天在努力写作，知道读者们正在阅读，他们也会告诉我他们的想法。所以非常鼓舞人心。很多书都是从我们的平台开始的。然后出版商认为能够畅销，就和作者们合作出版，让实体书走入书店，让写作内容和整本书都得到改善。
Everyone dreams of being a published author. I think that’s the end goal for a lot of people. Even people who has been very successful self-publishing is official. It means that people who know that is talking about, have said this is good.
每个人都梦想成为出版作家。我认为，这是许多人的终极目标。即使曾经成功地在网络上发表作品的作家也想实至名归。这意味着读者们对他的认可。
Which means the writing isn’t quite on the wool for the printed page. But traditional publishing is entering a new chapter.
这意味着写作并不局限于白纸黑字。但是传统出版业已经进入新的纪元。
CNN, London.
CNN，伦敦。
