1. E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展

2. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 2 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 dotCom era produced interesting product like 3-D flip viewer and virtual publishing Catherine was our first online publishing author

3. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 3 CD-Books Bundled with computer hardware –IPC Home Magic System comes with 33 CDRom titles –Creative’s Game Blaster comes with 11 game CDs

4. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 4 Early E-books Published Ngee Ann Polytechnic produced the Mega CD, Asia’s first edutainment multimedia magazine with narrations in 3 languages iMedia published a CD magazine called the Virtual World CD-ROM book on Lee Kuan Yew

5. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 5 E-content Publishing Encouraged by the National Computer for online services, the Online Technologies Consortium OTC was formed in 1998 to encouraged electronic publishing.OTC Virtual Community projects were launched in 1998 Eg: Tampinese WebtownWebtown

6. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 6 dotCOM Euphoria Stephen King published “The Plant” on his website in 2000The Plant Catherine Lim published “A Leap of Love” on LycosAsia over the Internet“A Leap of Love” Stephen King gave up after 5 installments in December 2000gave 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!

7. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 7 Innovative Digital Publishing Digital Publishing Solutions software converts content on paper-to-XML formatDigital Publishing Solutions 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

8. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 8 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

9. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 9 Classroom of the Future Backpack Project (launched 2003)using tablet PC with handwriting recognitionBackpack Project2003 Edupad (launched 1999) Project using wireless handheld device for innovative learning and teachingEdupad1999 Demonstrate of use of technology to enhance learning

10. Beh Chew Leng 马洲龙 E-Book Development in Singapore 新加坡电子书的发展 Slide 10 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