{"id":4484,"date":"2009-07-08T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T00:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2009-07-08T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T00:59:19","slug":"chinese-newspapers-in-their-entirety-to-come-to-the-iphone-in-chinese-english-and-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/chinese-newspapers-in-their-entirety-to-come-to-the-iphone-in-chinese-english-and-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese newspapers (in their entirety) to come to the iPhone in Chinese, English and Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/founder_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4485\" title=\"founder_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/founder_logo.gif\" alt=\"founder_logo\" width=\"170\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeijing-based mega technology conglomerate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.founder.com\/en\/index.html\">Peking University Founder Group Corporation <\/a>has announced a new iPhone application that will make it possible for iPhone users in Japan to read five major Chinese newspapers in their entirety.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.founder.co.jp\">Founder&#8217;s Japanese arm<\/a> [JP], based in Tokyo, will launch the app as early as next month (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.founder.co.jp\/release\/release20090706.html\">press release<\/a> in Japanese). For 315 Yen\/2.40 Euro\/3.30 USD per title and per month, readers can download a daily copy of their favorite newspaper by 10 am and view it on their iPhone from page one to the last.<br \/>\nThe app will probably have a function to auto-translate articles in English and Japanese, too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/founder_iphone_app.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4487\" title=\"founder_iphone_app\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/founder_iphone_app-397x400.jpg\" alt=\"founder_iphone_app\" width=\"397\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo far, so good, but here is the drawback: Founder said the new service will be offered in Japan only for the time being. However, the company aims at rolling out the service world-wide eventually and wants to get 600,000 subscribers within five years.<br \/>\nIt seems more and more Asian print publications publish on smartphones. Three major Japanese newspapers have gone iPhone (in a different way) <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/three-major-japanese-newspapers-collectively-introduce-iphoneipod-app\/\">back in February<\/a> already.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nni.nikkei.co.jp\/e\/ac\/tnks\/Nni20090703D03JFA01.htm\">Nikkei<\/a> [registration required, paid subscription]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing-based mega technology conglomerate Peking University Founder Group Corporation has announced a new iPhone application that will make it possible for iPhone users in Japan to read five major Chinese newspapers in their entirety. Founder&#8217;s Japanese arm [JP], based in Tokyo, will launch the app as early as next month (press release in Japanese). For&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/chinese-newspapers-in-their-entirety-to-come-to-the-iphone-in-chinese-english-and-japanese\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese newspapers (in their entirety) to come to the iPhone in Chinese, English and Japanese<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[7,17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-japan","category-new-service","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}