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Taiwan: How to Reboot the Dragon - TIME
The Koreans may have reason to fret. A key plank of President Ma's economic platform is to capitalize on an expanding China to propel Taiwan's own growth. Though Taiwan firms have already shifted much low-end manufacturing to China, they have been operating under severe restrictions, such as a ban on direct travel between China and Taiwan, and limitations on investment, which put Taiwan at a disadvantage versus other economies in Asia that enjoyed greater access to the mainland. The regulations were a result of the tense political relationship between Taipei and China's leaders in Beijing, who consider Taiwan a breakaway province. Read "What 60-Year Chill? Chinese Tourists Flock to Taiwan."
The e-book business is included in the Executive Yuan’s plan for promoting the cultural and creative industry, one of the “six emerging industries” the government intends to foster for the good of Taiwan’s economic future. Major local businesses, including Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. Ltd., Cite Publishing Ltd., Locus Publishing Co. and Prime View International Co. Ltd., a leading investor in the production of e-readers, visited Premier Liu Chao-shiuan last week to discuss collaboration between the government and the private sector. Liu instructed Ministers without Portfolio Ovid Tseng and Chang Jin-fu to oversee progress as government agencies propose plans to press forward within two weeks. According to reports, more and more domestic companies are investing in the development of e-readers.
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Cambridge, UK – September 7, 2011 – Plastic Logic, the pioneer and global leader in the development of plastic electronics technology , today announced the appointment of Indro Mukerjee as CEO. Mr. Mukerjee brings extensive executive experience from leading global multinational, new venture and investment-backed fast moving technology and industrial companies. He will succeed Richard Archuleta, who is stepping down after leading the company for the past four years. ... more
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Video: Sony PRS-600 Touch is fast but too dim to satisfy PRS-505
PRS-600 vs. PRS-505 [Via Lesen.net , thanks Johannes] Touch, it's the panacea of e-book readers, right? Sure, just so long as readability isn't sacrificed in the process.
Microsoft, its new pet dog Yahoo, and Amazon have decided to join together in the soon to be formed Open Book Alliance. You might expect this to be a revolutionary new collaborative effort at delivering the written word in a way that makes Google Books pale into insignificance, but you would, of course, be wrong. Far from trying to compete with Google, The OBA is set to act as the collective mouthpiece for all those opposed to Google's recent $125 million settlement deal with book publishers and authors. With the US Department of Justice already investigating antitrust concerns relating to the case, the other big dogs just couldn't restrain themselves from coming together for a united whinge.
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo unite against Google Books
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According to DigiTimes , ASUS president Jerry Shen says he plans to launch an Eee-branded ebook reader by the end of 2009 at the earliest. That's a tasty nugget of news all on its own. However, what would DigiTimes be without adding some good ol' Taiwanese rumor-mongering? As such, they add that MSI is investigating the reader market as well. But that's just common sense, we don't need "industry sources" to tell us that manufacturers are looking for ways to make money in new markets now do we?
ASUS to launch Eee-book reader this year?
Video: Sony Reader Touch Edition gets touched, desktop software
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E-Readers More Eco-Friendly than Paper Books
In 2007, 125 million trees were harvested by the book and magazine industries, with brick-and-mortar bookstores leaving twice the carbon footprint of online retailers. “Multiplied by millions of units and increased sales of e-books, e-readers will have a staggering impact on improving the sustainability and environmental impact on one of the world’s most polluting industries: the publishing of books, newspapers and magazines,” said the report’s author, Emma Rich. While the production emissions of a single e-reader vastly outweigh a book’s (169 kg of CO2 vs. 7.5 kg) using an e-reader’s full storage capacity would offset nearly 11,185 kg of CO2 emissions. According to the report, it takes a year’s use for an e-reader to offset its carbon emissions.
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Asus, Toshiba, MSI, BlackBerry, etc. Chez TechFlash, on vient de prendre pourtant une photo, un instantané de l'univers du livre numérique. Une carte du Tendre, mais version ebook. Les partenariats, les achats, les ventes, les liens ou les reprises, les haines, les projets et le reste... Une carte fixée sur un PDF qui sera mis à jour régulièrement.
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[Thanks, Polo] Read - Microsoft's Courier Tablet details The second item of note is Microsoft Research's Codex Project (a project we covered back in October of 2008). This is perhaps more remarkable than InkSeine, as it is a nearly identical two-screen tablet like the one shown in the demo. While the prototype version of this setup is much less polished and finalized than the render seen in that clip, it's clear that there is a connection at Microsoft to this piece of demo hardware, and the mocked-up version in the Courier video. Most interesting of all is that these two projects have been put into play in tandem, with InkSeine running on the Codex Project's dual-screen tablet.
Codex and InkSeine -- the roots of Microsoft's Courier?
IREX unveils DR 800SG wireless ebook reader (updated with hands-
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5-inch BeBook Mini now shipping in the US for $199 (hands-on)
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