Growth of e-book industry regulated

Beijing - The country's first regulation to guide the development of the electronic-book industry was released by the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) over the weekend.

The "e-book" addressed in the regulation is specifically digital content - formatted as print, images, audio and video - that is downloaded over the Internet and read on handheld devices, such as the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad.

The regulation, designed to improve the development of the industry by introducing an admittance system, was released following seven months of research by a panel of experts drawn up by the GAPP.