In Taiwan, Sayling Wen, the former vice chairman of Inventec, proposed an online bookstore selling e-texts in 1998. He put up NT $ 100 million to establish Tomorrow Studio, hired writers, and began producing content, spending tens of millions of NT dollars to acquire rights and produce multimedia CDs.
國內已故的英業達公司副董事長溫世仁在 1998 年，就已有建立「數位書城」的開創性思維，當時他拿出 1 億元成立「明日工作室」，聘僱作家來上班，生產內容，也曾耗資數千萬元，購買書本版權後製作成多媒體光碟。