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Google Book Search &e-Publishing in China
SHEN Liang
What I’m doing Now?• Running a startup IT company
Product: Book Search
Business Model
Libraries
Publishers
Author Publis
her
Publisher
Publisher
Powered by Open Source• CMS• Full-Text Search Engine• Document Parser
Estimate Titles of Google Books
Google.com vs. Google.cn (Mar. 2009)
Google.com vs. Google.cn (Nov. 2009)
Change
Mar. 2009 Nov. 20090
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
88,400 68,756
126,600
254,589
Google.cnGoogle.com
Google.cn
Law? Politics!
Players in China• Beijing Superstar Electric Company?• Beijing Founder APABI Technology Limited• Beijing Sursen Electronic Technology Company
Limited
Available Business Model• Sell e-libraries to
universities• 211 Project• books as a benchmark
Superstar (超星 )?• Established in 1993• 1,000,000 titles books
(2004)• PDG=DjVu
Company NameEstablished
Date
Registered Capital
北京超星神州科创技术有限责任公司
2003-07-011,000,000CN
Y
北京超星数图信息技术有限公司
2004-07-292,000,000CN
Y
北京超星数图信息技术有限公司燕山分公司
2005-08-19
Founder (方正 )• APABI>Founder>Wang.X
uan• LATEX>PS (open format)• FBD>“PS” (close format)• CEB (Apabi)≈PDF
WAN.Xuan (PKU) “Creator” of Chinese Desktop publishing System
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA
THANKS
My Master Thesis: “Developments and Obstacles in Chinese eBook Market”[email protected]://www.linkedin.com/in/shenliang
• 有趣的是，有些正在起诉Google的图书出版商也抢先在自己的网站里嵌入了Google的图书搜索引擎。根据 PCWORLD的报道，出版商McGraw-Hill公司正是其中之一。McGraw-Hill和很多主要图书出版商一样，都正在起诉Google。然而在Google推出这项定制搜索服务后，McGraw-Hill第一时间在自己的网站里使用了它。
• 不仅如此，按照Google图书搜索合作关系主管 Tom Turvey的说法，McGraw-Hill已经成为了Google图书搜索的 1万个合作出版商之一，但McGraw-Hill公司拒绝对此作出回应。
ultimate surrender date• “Big Music Will
Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011” - by Michael Arrington on March 8, 2009 TechCrunch
