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.
Masaru IKEDA