Taiwan Plans to Roll out E-readers in Schools - PC World
Taiwan's Ministry of Education plans to offer e-readers to
schoolkids on the island next year as part of efforts to further
digitize schools and promote reading.
The e-readers are part of a five-year, NT$50 billion (US$1.55 billion)
budget earmarked for information technology in classrooms. Currently
the ministry is reviewing designs for e-readers and doesn't yet know
how many it will purchase for next year, a representative said.
The only e-reader displayed at the Ministry of Education's booth at
the IT Month exhibition in Taipei on Monday was a color e-reader
designed by Aiptek International for young children. The Aiptek inColor
e-reader has an 8-inch color screen and 1GB of flash memory for
storage. It comes with 20 multimedia e-books pre-installed and costs
NT$6,900 (US$213) in Taiwan, according to Hsu Fang-chi, a media
representative at Aiptek.
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