‘The man behind the Netbook craze’: E-books next on tap

November 28, 2009 | 12:50 pm

By David Rothman

Jonney Shih, the billionaire chairman of Asus, gets a write-up in Fortune for pioneering the netbook, which, of course, springs from the One Laptop Per Child project.

OLPC receives nary a syllable of mention. But certainly Fortune seems on the money in giving Shih credit for major commercialization of the idea—a somewhat shrunken laptop with a low price.

Next on tap for Asus: e-books. Fortune missed that angle, alas. Given Shih’s competitive nature, it would appear that Amazon and the rest are in for a good fight. Already, according to Fortune, Asus in the fifth-largest PC-maker in the world.

Related: Video on Asus and netbooks.

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‘The man behind the Netbook craze’: E-books next on tap

November 28, 2009 | 12:50 pm

By David Rothman

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