Taiwan Brings E-Books and Audio Books to Nation’s Libraries

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By Paul Biba

Taiwan has teamed up with Ingram Digital to digitize the nation’s libraries. From the press release:

The Taiwan Library Consortium, in conjunction with the government of Taiwan, has selected Ingram Digital, an Ingram content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting and distribution, to provide e-books and audio books to a majority of the nation’s libraries.

The Taiwan Library Consortium will provide 88, or about 75 percent, of the country’s libraries with access to e-books through this agreement. E-book titles will be accessible to member libraries via Ingram Digital’s e-content aggregation platform, MyiLibrary®. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Ingram Digital will supply 250,000 users with access to 5,000 digital titles covering a wide spectrum of subject matter. …

Titles that will be available through this agreement were methodically chosen after a one-year survey evaluating usage patterns of print titles. Content will be available in both Chinese and English, continuing a longstanding tradition of providing citizens with access to education through the highest quality reference materials available. …

The agreement marks the third international government-funded deal for Ingram Digital. Ingram Digital is also currently engaged in partnerships with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom.

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