eBook
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
RIP: MediaCorp’s ilovebooks.com Now in Deadpool
First launched in May 2012, MediaCorp’s e-book store ilovebooks is now in the deadpool.
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



