George Slowik

Taiwan's e-book market will grow dramatically in the next three years as large numbers of e-book readers and tablets are expected to be available in the region by then, a local publisher said recently.

By 2015, the number of e-book readers and tablets is expected to exceed two million units in Taiwan, a figure that is big enough to drive forward the e-book industry faster,” Yu Kuo-ting, chairman of the Taipei-based Taiwan E-book Association, told CNA in an interview.

George Slowik Jr., who acquired Publishers Weekly last month from Reed Business Information, has named four veterans of the magazine as corporate officers. Publisher Cevin Bryerman, co-editorial directors Jim Milliot and Michael Coffey, and children's book editor Diane Roback will serve as vice-presidents in PWxyz, the entity that now owns PW, PublishersWeekly.com, and the BEA, London, and Frankfurt Show Dailies. "I am relying on their expertise, experience, and astounding commitment to the future of this franchise that they've all been part of for many years," said Slowik of the appointees. "Now they are empowered and enabled to act on their ideas, and they have made it very clear to me that it won't be business as usual."

George Slowik, who was publisher of Publishers Weekly in the 1980s and 1990s, has bought the trade publication from Reed Business Information. The sale was announced in a press release from Mr. Slowik’s new company, called PWxyz, created to house the Publishers’ Weekly magazine, Web site and related assets.