Fidibo
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| Private company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | e-books, e-readers, audiobooks, reading applications |
| Founded 📆 | March 9, 2014 |
| Founder 👔 | Majid Ghasemi |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Neda Baradaran (CEO)[1] |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 70 (2021) |
| Parent | Digikala (2016–present)[2] |
| 🌐 Website | fidibo |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Fidibo is a Iranian e-books and audiobooks provider and digital library[3][4][5] that launched in March 2014 under Book City Company. works with over 400 Persian and international publishers, including the well-known Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Niloofar, Amirkabir, Qoqnoos, Ney, Negah, Ghatreh, Mahi, Agah. Its app has been downloaded over 1.5 million times and some 50,000 books are available through its service. It has established offices in Murcia in Spain and Beirut and offers a limited number of books in English and Arabic. [6]
Applications[edit]
Fidibo has applications in Android and iOS and Windows Desktop platforms. The app environment features such as reading a book in a special reader, searching through books, registering book reviews, and reviewing books. The books are in Epub, PDF, and Audio formats And the user can access his library books at any time with any device.
Rasad[edit]
Rasad (Persian: رصد) is the sole monitoring system that protects the rights of authors and publishers in the country’s cyberspace. The campaign of “Saying no to illegal downloading of eBook” kicked off in 2014 with the aim of restoring the rights of publishers and authors in Iran. About 10,000 visitors interested in books tied “Saying no to illegal downloading of eBook” bracelet to their hands – prepared by the campaign itself - and showed their support for the event, symbolically.[7]
Fidibox[edit]
Fidibox is a device as LBS that let Fidibo's users access books in public places for specified time for free.In the first phase it installed in 22 Tehran Metro Stations.[8][9] [10]
Fidibook[edit]
Fidibo have launched a new e-reader and with an integrated bookstore that has been optimized for Persian on April 28, 2018[11][12][13]. This was the first digital reader that has been released by an Iranian company.Fidibook Hannah F1 was an android-powered e-book reader with six inch e-Ink Carta Capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024X758 and 212 PPI. It has a front-lit display to read in the dark and has 6 LED lights and Dual-Core Cortex A9 1.0 GHz processor. It has 512MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. [14][15][16][17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Number of e-book readers increasing during home quarantine". Tehran Times. 5 April 2020.
- ↑ "Iran E-Commerce Trending Higher". Financial Tribune. 23 August 2021.
- ↑ "Digital age poses a new challenge to Iran's relentless book censors". The Guardian. The Guardian. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "Iran's digital start-ups signal changing times". BBC World. BBC. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "Boosting ebooks, protecting copyright" (PDF). internationalpublishers. internationalpublishers. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ↑ "ebooks in Tehran Metro: Read as You Go". Financial Tribune. Financial Tribune. February 12, 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "معرفی: کمپین رصد". originalwork. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "Fidibo – Des ebooks dans le métro de Téhéran". idboox. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ "Iran : une bibliothèque de la taille de Téhéran". Actualitte. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ↑ ""A library as large as a city." Iran's Fidibo offers ebooks to commuters on the Tehran Metro". The New Publishing Standard. 15 February 2018.
- ↑ "Conduct an opening ceremony from Fidibook" (in Persian). ISNA. ISNA. 28 April 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Iranian Startups Unveil e-Reader Supporting Persian". financialtribune. financialtribune. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ "Fidibo launches Persian-language e-reader as the Tehran International Book Fair readies to launch tomorrow". The New Publishing Standard. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ "Fidibo launches new Persian e-reader". goodereader. goodereader. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ "Fidibo Launches a Re-Branded Persian-Language Boeye eReader in Iran". the digital reader. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ "Iranians enjoy Persian literature on e-book reader". Tehran Times. Tehran Times. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ "Iranian Startups Unveil e-Reader Supporting Persian". Financial Tribune. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
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