EBook Development in Singapore Beh Chew Leng EBook
E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 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 • dot. Com era produced interesting product like 3 -D flip viewer and virtual publishing • Catherine was our first online publishing author Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 2
CD-Books • Bundled with computer hardware – IPC Home Magic System comes with 33 CDRom titles – Creative’s Game Blaster comes with 11 game CDs Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 3
Early E-books Published • Ngee Ann Polytechnic produced the Mega CD, Asia’s first edutainment multimedia magazine with narrations in 3 languages • i. Media published a CD magazine called the Virtual World • CD-ROM book on Lee Kuan Yew Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 4
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 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 5
dot. COM Euphoria • Stephen King published “The Plant” on his website in 2000 • Catherine Lim published “A Leap of Love” on Lycos. Asia 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! Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 6
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 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 7
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 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 8
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 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 9
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 Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 10
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