« collected letters: a mountain of email | Main | lulu.com - equal opportunity backlist »
ebooks in korea 
08.08.2005, 7:57 AM
An article in Chosun Ilbo describes the increasing popularity of ebooks in Korea, a shift driven by readers on a tight budget who are drawn to the affordability of digital texts. It's estimated that about 100,000 electronic titles are currently available, a number that is expected to more than triple over the coming year as publishers ratchet up their digital publishing operations. But most interesting was this prediction of how the form of electronic books will change as they become more widely accepted:
For now, e-books remain at the level of taking printed books and converting them into digital files. But they will soon develop into multimedia books that combine text, sound and video.
(image from Chosun Ilbo)
Posted by ben vershbow at August 8, 2005 07:57 AM
tags: digital_literature
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.futureofthebook.org/32blogadmin/mt-tb.cgi/48
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference ebooks in korea:
» In Korea e-books are soaring from MobileRead
Seeing Korea as a "what's to come" indicator, we have finally good reason to believe that e-books are gaining acceptance. Sales have doubled and are expected to almost triple over the coming year. One of the main reasons of those growth numbers is a... [Read More]
Tracked on August 8, 2005 07:20 PM
» ebooks in korea from PDA Handheld News
[Source: if:book] quoted: An article in Chosun Ilbo describes the increasing popularity of ebooks in Korea, a shift driven by readers on a tight budget who are drawn to the affordability of digital texts. It's estimated that about 100,000 electronic t... [Read More]
Tracked on August 10, 2005 10:03 AM
