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Thai bookstore Ookbee gets $7 million funding to continue Southeast Asia expansion

Thai bookstore Ookbee gets $7 million funding to continue Southeast Asia expansion

Thailand’s Ookbee has received a Series B investment from Tokyo-based venture capital firm Transcosmos Inc.
Saiyai Sakawee · · 1 min read
Despite early promise, ebook creation tool Moglue shuts and sells out

Despite early promise, ebook creation tool Moglue shuts and sells out

Moglue’s clever tech has been acquired by two companies, but the ebook creation tool and service no longer exists.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
Indobooks offers Netflix for magazines through Telkomsel partnership

Indobooks offers Netflix for magazines through Telkomsel partnership

Telkomsel users can pay for their subscriptions via carrier billing for IDR 2,000 (17 cents) daily, IDR 5,000 (44 cents) weekly, and IDR 15,000 ($1.3) monthly. Currently, Indobooks has 150 magazines with over 2,000 new editions every month.
Enricko Lukman · · 2 min read
India’s Flipboard-esque NewsHunt app sees accelerating growth, expands to e-books

India’s Flipboard-esque NewsHunt app sees accelerating growth, expands to e-books

Indian news-reading app NewsHunt is proving popular in its home market. When we last looked at the app it just hit 10 billion page-views. Today the app is growing at
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Thai telco Dtac enters e-book marketplace with Readever

Today, Thai telco Dtac launched its very first e-book marketplace app, Readever. This makes the company the third telco in Thailand to offer the service after True launched TrueBook and
Saiyai Sakawee · · 2 min read

Moglue lets anyone create e-books for Android and iOS

“If you can use PowerPoint, you can create your own e-book.” That was the concept behind Moglue, a drag-and-drop interface for users to create interactive e-book apps, when we first heard
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read

5 ideas to make Mom happy on Thai Mother’s Day

Monday, August 12th is Queen Sirikit’s birthday so it’s Mother’s Day in the Kingdom of Thailand. Nope, our Mother’s Day is not the same day as other countries. If you
Saiyai Sakawee · · 3 min read

Kakao Launches KakaoPage, a Marketplace for Anyone to Publish Digital Content

l KakaoPage marketplace was launched just two days ago with over 500 individual and corporate publishers who provide about 8,000 pieces of digital content.
Willis Wee · · 2 min read

RIP: MediaCorp’s ilovebooks.com Now in Deadpool

First launched in May 2012, MediaCorp’s e-book store ilovebooks is now in the deadpool.
Willis Wee · · 2 min read

Amazon Brings Kindle E-Bookstore and Apps to China, But Still No Sign of any Hardware

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has just launched its e-bookstore and Kindle smartphone apps into China’s crowded e-book market. It has been a long time coming – and there’s still even longer to
Steven Millward · · 2 min read