{"id":11984,"date":"2011-01-05T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2011-01-05T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:15:32","slug":"sharp-to-introduce-international-models-of-e-book-reader-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/sharp-to-introduce-international-models-of-e-book-reader-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp to Introduce International Models Of E-book Reader Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sharp's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sharp_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"22\" \/><br \/>\nSharp announced recently they would introduce the e-book reader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharp.co.jp\/galapagos\/\">Galapagos[J]<\/a>, which was introduced in Japan last October, in U.S and several emerging countries such as Mainland China, India and Brazil.\u00a0 The current models enable the company&#8217;s original e-book format of XMDF, and upcoming models to be sold outside Japan are expected to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpf.org\/idpf_groups\/epubmaint.htm\">e-Pub<\/a> format and 3G connectivity as well as WiFi.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/galapagos_screenshot.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11985\" title=\"Galapagos Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/galapagos_screenshot.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe company also plans to deploy it as a textbook browser this month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iith.ac.in\/\">IITH<\/a>, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, which aims to prove it as a tool for online education programs especially for rural areas and encourage the usage at schools in African nations.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/sharp-ties-up-with-japans-largest-video-rental-chain-for-  content-distribution-to-android-tablets\/\">Sharp Ties Up With Japan\u2019s Largest Video Rental Chain For Content Distribution To Android Tablets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp announced recently they would introduce the e-book reader Galapagos[J], which was introduced in Japan last October, in U.S and several emerging countries such as Mainland China, India and Brazil.\u00a0 The current models enable the company&#8217;s original e-book format of XMDF, and upcoming models to be sold outside Japan are expected to support e-Pub format&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/sharp-to-introduce-international-models-of-e-book-reader-galapagos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharp to Introduce International Models Of E-book Reader Galapagos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24],"tags":[1306,3293],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-galapagos","tag-sharp","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}