Google Busy in the E-Book and Tablet PC MarketReturn
TELDAP e-Newsletter (August, 2010)
Google Busy in the E-Book and Tablet PC Market
TELDAP e-newsletter/Chen Tai-ying
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According to reports in the financial media, Google has announced that it will introduce its exclusive Google Editions service in the second or third quarter of this year. The most mobile difference between Google's service and the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle is that Google's e-books will be stored in an online cloud bookshelf; users will be able to connect to the online bookshelf to download and read e-books via PC, laptop, cell phone, e-book reader, or other storage device.
Despite the considerable controversy over intellectual property rights, the work that Google has done in digitally scanning books over the past few years has resulted in the accumulation of digital scans of over 22 million books spanning all languages and subjects, allowing Google to provide choice far outstripping that of Amazon and Apple's e-books. This makes Google's entry into the e-book market like a stun grenade thrown into the market. TELDAP’s Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project personnel have compiled years of work experience in the “Digitization Work Process Manual,” distributed free through Google Books.
In terms of new IT products, although Google's development of cell phones has been less than ideal, it hasn't given up on the tablet PC market. According to reports in the financial media on May 12, 2010, Google and Verizon Wireless will cooperate to develop a tablet PC they could snatch a large piece of the market pie. Financial analysts estimate that Apple's iPad may have sold over 1 million units in its first month of release, reason to be optimistic about the prospects for tablet PCs. Although Microsoft has announced the suspension of the market development plan for its own Courier tablet PC, this will not stop Google's entry into this underdeveloped, high-potential consumer market.
Information technology will continue to advance rapidly in the future, with new products and ideas making their way into the market all the time. If the substantial achievements of TELDAP can be joined with this trend, they will certainly be able to form a bridge between culture and information technology over which knowledge will flow.
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Publisher:Fan-Sen Wang, Vice President of Academia Sinica Editor-in-Chief:Zong-Kun Li Publishing Department:Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program, TELDAP Executive Editor:Sub-project: Digital Information - the New and Creative Way of Communicating Mailing Address:The Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
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Issue:TELDAP e-Newsletter (August, 2010) Publish Date:08/15 /2010 First Issue:02/15 /2007(Published on 15th every 2 months)
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