The Chinese government\’s recent move to restrict Internet access has not stopped e-books from attracting an audience there:
A portable e-book device is now available through The Xinhua Book Store in Xinhua, China. The Xinhua E-Book, which has been developed with a Taiwanese tech company, connects to the Internet and supports multimedia Audio visual programs. The Xinhua Post has created a channel for the device. At another Chinese site, Eshunet.com, e-books are free for the taking. (In Chinese, \”shu\” means book.) All titles are in EXE format and over 700,000 units are downloaded each day. Eshunet encourages redistribution, such as posting e-books to other sites or mailing them to friends, and has obtained permission from its authors to give their work out for free.
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