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| World's first ebook library opens at Taiwan Airport
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Airports across the world have created a myriad of innovative ways to
keep their passengers entertained, from airport spray tanning in London
to an airport wedding service in Amsterdam. Now Taiwan's international
airport has put a high-tech twist on airport reading — with the world’s
first airport library for ebooks.
The e-library, based in Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, has
four hundred titles in its collection, available in English or Chinese,
and in ePub or Zinio formats, which can be read in the airport, but not
taken away or downloaded onto the user's own device. Set up by Taiwan
President Ma Ying-jeou, the library is run by the airport duty-free
shop, and was created in collaboration with Taiwan's government-funded
Institute for Information Industry, costing over $101,720. There are
currently only thirty devices on which passengers can read the ebooks,
which, as an article on ARN points out, is limiting when considering
that the airport handles up to 17 million passengers a year.
Whilst publishing house Harper Collins has placed a limit on the
number of times their ebooks can be downloaded in libraries, initiatives
such as this imply that ebooks could become an integral part of library
services in the future.
Website: www.taoyuan-airport.com
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