Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)
Posted on July 2nd, 2012 by Akky Akimoto
Rakuten is having a press conference now, just announced that they release Kobo Touch e-book reader for Japanese market, with a price 7,980 yen ($US 99).
Rakuten, and its e-commerce/e-book rival Amazon announced their e-book readers coming to Japan on the last Tuesday, June 26th.
The sales will start on July 19, pre-order starts today July 2.
Rakuten Kobo supports rubi(readings in katakana) and vertical text display for Japanese market.
Akky Akimoto
Leader at Asiajin
@akky is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for The Japan Times, consults for some foreign companies interested in Japanese web market. (please inquire to akimoto on gmail.com).
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