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E-book market opens new chapter in publishing

More domestic publishing houses are replacing printed works with e-books.
More domestic publishing houses are replacing printed works with e-books.

Ybook Co owned by the Tre (Youth) Publishing House has launchedwww.ybook.vn offering 1,000 book titles. The company will add 1,000 moree-book titles to its store each month.

Ybook now boasts more than 25,000 Vietnamese e-book titles, the biggest in the country.

Before Tre, the HCM City General Publishing House in Octoberlaunched a website that sells e-books at sachweb.vn. The site offers1,000 titles at prices ranging from 5,000 VND to 10,000 VND.

About 2,000 copyrighted book titles from Alpha Books, Nha Nam, Phuong Dong and others have been sold on Alezaa.com.

The Phuong Nam Cultural Corporation opened its first e-book store in the Vincom Shopping Mall in District 1 last April.

Fahasa (state-owned Book Distribution Corporation) and FPT(Corporation of Financing and Promoting Technology) are working onprojects to join the market.

The Tri Viet (First News)Publishing House plans to cooperate with an e-book distributor to buildup an online e-book house.

First News will sell its e-books at prices equal to 30-40 percent of the prices of printed books.

However, illegal e-books and copyright infringement in Vietnam are two problems facing many book companies.

The Kim Dong Publishing House, based in Hanoi , has recognised the big profits that e-book technology can bring.

However, it has not entered the market because of issues related tocopyright protection, according to the Tuoi Tre newspaper.

Prices offered by Ybook for copyrighted e-books are between 1,990 VNDand 9,900 VND, and from the HCM City General Publishing House, from5,000 VND to 10,000 VND. These are still high for many readers.

Many book readers say they can download all kinds of e-books, bothcopyrighted and illegal ones, for free from the internet.

Paying online, by registering an account on a publisher's website, is anew and unfamiliar process for most Vietnamese customers.

"Withan increasing number of hi-tech devices, Vietnam needs to develope-books, as in other countries, to attract readers," said Nguyen MinhNhat, director of the Tre Publishing House.

"Book companies themselves must know how to protect their books from copyright infringement," Nhat added.-VNA
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