Digitimes are reporting that Eink plan to launch a China based subsidiary. This sub will start with about $7m in capital and be entirely focused on the Chinese education market. Note that this is a separate venture from the screen manufacturing, which was already being done in mainland China. Digitimes
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Chinese e-reader price war is heating up
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Digitimes are reporting that Hanvon, MReader, and other Chinese e-reader manufacturers have lowered their prices for the domestic Chinese market. Hanvon Technology, currently the largest vendor of e-book readers in the China market, has lowered its retail prices by 200-300 yuan (US$30-45) on average, with the lowest price reaching 950 yuan, according to report by [...]
4 Opinions on the Chinese ebook market
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Beijing Review posted 4 interviews about ebooks in China. Okay, they only translated one question from each interview, but I think it’s still worth a read. Here are some excerpts: Ge Xiaozheng, Vice President of the Chinese Writers’ Publishing Group: E-books will not replace print publications, as large numbers of readers are accustomed to [...]
New 7″ Chinese WinCE tablet clears FCC
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
So I found another 7″ tablet on the FCC website the other day. This one could be good. When I look at a tablet, I judge it based on how close it comes to replacing my desktop (don’t laugh). Now this tablet is tempting. It has a 7″ LCD screen at 480×800, Wifi, SD card [...]
New 9″ Chinese tablet clears FCC
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
This 8.9″ tablet is made by Sinchun Electronic Co., Ltd. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 2GB RAM, 1.3M camera, USB Host, SD card slot, Wifi, Bluetooth, and it runs Windows XP. Weight is around 3 lbs. Between the wight and the OS I’m going to guess that this tablet will have disappointing battery [...]
Cooper B1 – Chinese e-reader
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · gajah
These babies keep popping up all over. If you’ve follow my blog for any length of time, you’ll recognize this e-reader. It has the same hardware as the Delstar Openbook, and it’s made by Gajah. This particular model is being sold by Cooper, a Chinese consumer electronics company. It has a 5″ LCD screen (800×480 [...]
ABBYY adds Chinese, Japanese and Korean OCR to their MobileToolkit SDK
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced the availability of its Mobile OCR Engine 4.0, a new version of the award-winning software development kit (SDK) for creating small footprint optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The key enhancement of the SDK is its new robust [...]
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1 in 4 Chinese read ebooks
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
I found an article on a reading survey conducted in the PRC. There were over 19k responses from 29 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, which makes this the largest survey response group I’ve ever seen (for digital reading, at least). From the Global Times: “The public gets its news and information from the Internet today,” [...]
Wiley Launches Chinese Language WebsiteF
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the press release: John Wiley & Sons has announced the launch of its Chinese language website, which goes live today at http://www.wileychina.com. Wileychina.com will raise the publisher’s profile in China through greater and more meaningful engagement with the community there. Designed to enhance Wiley’s China-based customers’ experience with tailored sections for librarians, authors, societies [...]
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