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

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

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

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

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

  3. CD-Books • Bundled with computer hardware • IPC Home Magic System comes with 33 CDRom titles • Creative’s Game Blaster comes with 11 game CDs E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展

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

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

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

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

  8. 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 • http://www.flipviewer.com/fv/index.php • Discover Hong Kong book on family E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展

  9. Classroom of the Future • Backpack Project(launched 2003)using tablet PC with handwriting recognition • Edupad (launched 1999) Project using wireless handheld device for innovative learning and teaching • Demonstrate of use of technology to enhance learning E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展

  10. E-Books in Singapore National Library • >250,000 ebooks available to readers • >1,000 online subscribed journals • >100 online subscribed database • >100,000 items in CD-ROM, CD and DVD formats E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展

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