Wu, who had spent 15 years at Linking Publishing Company in Taipei, went to the mainland in 1998 when Yuan Liou Publishing Company established a huge database maintenance facility there and sent him to help run daily operations. As the work was winding down to a finish last March, Wu went freelance.
曾經在聯經出版社任職十五年的吳興文，九八年因為遠流出版在大陸設立龐大的資料庫加工基地，於是奉命前來當工頭。眼見電子書做得差不多了，便在去年三月獨立作業，定居下來。