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Probably this move must prepare for the market deployment of a brand new Android phone from NTT DoCoMo[J], which is scheduled to start tomorrow, Celsys, a Shinjuku-based developer of e-book online viewer, and Voyager[J], a Shibuya-based e-book and e-magazine publisher, jointly announced today they would release an online publication viewer for Android handsets on the same day.

The viewer app is well-sophisticatedly designed for seeing every frame of every page of the comics so smoothly and for reading novels printed vertically. Voyager has published a number of comic titles and books by themselves, and also released electronic edition of paper-printed magazines and books which have been published by many old-fashioned publishers.

This new app is compatible with their state-of-the-art e-book viewer which has been developed for anti-smartphone handsets, therefore an enormous number of publication titles are standing by for your downloading.

The new app is now being exhibited at Digital Publishing Fair 2009[J], at Tokyo Big Sight, where you can try it on your palm.

Tags: Japan, News by Masaru IKEDA
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Dentsu, the world’s largest ad agency, announced today it would join forces with Yappa, an iPhone/iPod software developer which is strong in developing e-publication online reader, and launch a marketplace dealing with digital periodicals this summer.  Twenty publishers will put their thirty magazines on sale at the marketplace called Magastore[J].

Magastore uses an original DRM technology which has been developed by Dentsu, and the participating publishers include Asahi Shimbun Publication[J], Kodansha, Shinchosha[J], Diamond[J], Toyo Keizai[J] and Fusosha Publishing[J].

As the giant company joins e-publication business, it may add momentum to digitization of Japanese publication industry.

Tags: Cellular Phone, Company, Japan, New Service, News by Masaru IKEDA
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