google books and e-publishing in china

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”shenzhuxi@gmail.comhttp://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