And the hits keep on coming in the looming war between booksellers and publishers: Eslite Books, Taiwan’s largest book store operator is preparing to enter the e-book arena.
The announcement shows the global e-book trend continues to grow and is attracting a bigger following in Chinese, the most widely used language in Taiwan. The service Eslite and Far EasTone plan to establish is similar to Amazon.com’s Kindle and e-book store. Far EasTone will also benefit from wireless downloads of e-books and other content to be made for e-readers.
Details are still thin on the ground, but it’s clear that Eslite Books is reading from the same playbook as Borders, and Barnes and Noble: find a partner to build the technology, and transition part of the business from physical sales to digital sales.
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