E-Book Development in Singapore新加坡电子书的发展.ppt

新加坡电子书的发展 E-Book Development in Singapore E-Book Development in Singapore新加坡电子书的发展 Technology Driven Lesser driven by readership or content Start using CD-ROM as an alternative to print medium Encouraged by the drive for online services dotCom era produced interesting product like 3-D flip viewer and virtual publishing Catherine was our first online publishing author CD-Books Bundled with computer hardware IPC Home Magic System comes with 33 CDRom titles Creative’s Game Blaster comes with 11 game CDs Early E-books Published Ngee Ann Polytechnic produced the Mega CD, Asia’s first edutainment multimedia magazine with narrations in 3 languages iMedia published a CD magazine called the Virtual World CD-ROM book on Lee Kuan Yew E-content Publishing Encouraged by the National Computer for online services, the Online Technologies Consortium OTC was formed in 1998 to encouraged electronic publishing. Virtual Community projects were launched in 1998 Eg: Tampinese Webtown dotCOM Euphoria Stephen King published “The Plant” on his website in 2000 Catherine Lim published “A Leap of Love” on LycosAsia over the Internet Stephen King gave up after 5 installments in December 2000 Catherine Lim declared her foray into e-publishing a dismal failure People are unwilling to pay for downloads! Innovative Digital Publishing Digital Publishing Solutions software converts content on paper-to-XML format XML standards based e-Book formats for electronic dissemination via the internet, as well as physical distribution through Print-on-Demand Published more than 15 million pages in March 2006 and to double that by the end of the year 3-D Digital Flip Technology Allows an e-book to be flipped just like a paper version Patented by E-book System Used by almost 300 magazines world-wide /fv/index.php Discover Hong Kong book on family Classroom of the Future Backpack Project (launched 2003)using tablet PC with handwriting recognition Edupad (launched 1999) Project using wireless handheld device