The Digital Reader

I don’t know about you, but this story caught me off guard. Hanvon are already active in Europe, USA, Japan, and China; I’m a littl surprised to find out that they don’t already operate in Taiwan.

From english.Cri.com:

The Chinese mainland’s biggest e-book maker Hanvon is set to open a branch in Taiwan at the end of the month and launch its e-book readers here in October.

The branch office will market e-readers and look to work with the island’s content providers, said Hanvon’s General Manager Chen Shaoqiang Tuesday.

Chen talked with Xinhua on the sidelines of a forum on digital content industries attended by business people and experts from both the mainland and Taiwan.

A Hanvon will also open e-book stores in Taiwan just ahead of its e-reader launch, Chen said. The company would unveil several new stylish models of e-readers for Taiwan consumers.