Chinese interactive entertainment media company Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited has announced that it plans to launch its own smartphone product in March or April 2012. The new smartphone product will reportedly adopt similar sales methods and channels as the company's e-book reader Bambook, and the price of this new product is temporarily set at CNY999. [...]

The Chinese e-book technology company Hanvon has set up a subsidiary in Taiwan. Following the setting up of its branch in Taiwan, Hanvon will start to sell its electronic reader products in this marketplace at the beginning of October 2010. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese version of Hanvon's e-book platform will be launched and about 2,000 e-books [...]

Shanda Literature, the Internet literature subsidiary of China's Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, has announced that it has acquired the Chinese digital periodical website Zubunet.com. According to Shanda Literature, Zubunet.com's resources will be integrated into its Cloudary, which is a cloud library, and will further achieve a seamless access to its electronic reader product Bambook. With [...]

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has decided the final retail price of CNY999 for its electronic reader product Bambook, and a new reservation system has been launched for the marketing of this new product. Bambook will be officially launched on September 28, 2010, with an updated software version. Prior to this, the product was put into the [...]

The once-postponed mobile phone reading service of China Telecom will now reportedly be formally launched in late July 2010.
An insider revealed to the local media that the related departments of China Telecom have started planning and deploying resources for the launch of this new service and the company will set up a mobile reading base [...]

Shanda Literature, the online literature subsidiary of China's Shanda Interactive Entertainment, has reportedly registered and established a subsidiary in Singapore, aiming to expand into the English-language digital and mobile e-book reading market.
According to information from 163.com, Hou Xiaoqiang, CEO of Shanda Literature, revealed that 30% of Shanda Literature's website clicks now come from overseas Chinese [...]

According to Fang Zhonghua, senior vice president of Founder Group, the company is currently promoting the establishment of the format standards and the copyright pricing standards for Chinese e-books.
Fang told local Chinese media that without genuine content and by only relying on the model of selling equipment and downloading pirated contents will finally lead to [...]

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has set up a new subsidiary, Guoke Electronics, to be in charge of the research and development of its new e-book product "Bambook".
According to reports in Chinese local media, Shanda is expected to integrate the resources of this newly established subsidiary with those of Shanda Literature, the Internet literature subsidiary of the [...]

China Telecom plans to establish a product center and will set up six content bases [...]

China's three major telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom have published the [...]

According to Su Yi, director of digital publication management department of Administration of Press and [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan-based Far Eastone Telecommunications has inked a cooperation [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has reached cooperation with ten Chinese content providers to jointly promote the development of the mobile phone reading industry.
The partnership was formed at China Mobile's mobile phone reading summit held in Hangzhou. Participants of the summit include executives from traditional Chinese publishers and literary websites such as China Publishing Group, [...]

Chinese telecom equipment provider Datang Telecom Technology Company has launched three new communications products, including the world's first electronics reading device based solely on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA technology.
The company's new products also include a mobile phone service that allows users to change their mobile phone interfaces at any time and a new gaming mobile phone [...]