Stay at home and read a short Dutch story
Fifteen leading Dutch-language authors wrote a short story especially for #ikleesthuis to encourage everyone who is at home, to inspire readers and to show what a story can mean.
News from Thailand – September 3, 2012
As if nothing had happened all weekend, Thailand's second English-language newspaper The Nation devotes its entire front page to the rise of the e-book.
Asia Books goes multimedia
The 42-year-old bookstore chain Asia Books is becoming multimedia after the example of amazon.com and is expanding its range with products such as iPad, smartphone, educational toys and lifestyle products. Asia Books started selling books and magazines online in March; 500.000 titles are already available as e-books. Asia Books has 66 stores plus Bookazine in the 7-Eleven grocery chain. The company was acquired in July by publicly traded Berli Jucker Plc (BJC), owned by…
Paper textbook becomes e-book
Textbook publishers should remember that the future belongs to the ebook. Pheu Thai wants to give all schoolchildren a tablet PC – free of charge. Next school year, the 800.000 students of Prathom 1 (our group 3) will be the first to receive it. Sufficient content is already available for this age group, but that does not apply to the higher grades. The content comes from, among others, the Office of the Basic Education Commission, …
