Amazon Japan, who has not been able to launch its long-awaited e-book reader/platform Kindle for years, leaked something related with Kindle on its website around September 3, just a couple of days before US Amazon’s press event planned on September 6 (7th in Japan timezone). According to a blogger ArtSalt [J], the link appeared fist… Continue reading Amazon Japan Mistakenly Teases Kindle Pages, But No Japanese E-Books
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Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming “Soon”
Amazon Japan’s top page is showing a new text banner that says its e-book reader Kindle will be sold in Japan soon, today on June 26. The time it was displayed seemed around 15:15, 30 minutes ago, by Twitter tweets. Amazon periodically expressed their putting Kindle to Japan market. There have been also several leaked… Continue reading Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming “Soon”
Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon Japan’s Sales To Grow 30%, Bring Kindle Over This Year
There can be no doubt that with a US$15 billion market cap, 75 million user accounts in Japan alone, and over 10,000 employees worldwide, the 800-pound gorilla in Japan’s e-commerce sector is Rakuten. Amazon Japan however, launched as early as 2000 (3 years later than Rakuten) continues to be a formidable opponent for the country’s… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon Japan’s Sales To Grow 30%, Bring Kindle Over This Year
Report: Amazon To Bring Kindle To Japan In April
Business daily The Nikkei says it learned that Amazon Japan, the country’s second-biggest e-commerce company, is planning to finally offer its e-book reader Kindle to Japanese customers. According to the paper, Amazon is expected to launch Kindle devices in April this year “for less than 20,000 yen” (US$257). Apparently, the Kindle Touch will be positioned… Continue reading Report: Amazon To Bring Kindle To Japan In April
Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard
Japan’s book market is said to be worth around $24 billion (it’s the world’s biggest and about 4x the size of the local video game industry), which means it’s not a big surprise that e-publishing is currently one of the “hot” trends in the country’s tech sector. And yesterday, Japan’s biggest business daily The Nikkei… Continue reading Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard
KLab Releases Amazon Kindle Compatible Emulator In Open Source
Japanese mobile system/application developer KLab Inc. [J] announced that they had developed a clone of Kindle Developer’s Kit (KDK) and Kindle Emulator. The official KDK has been available for limited beta developers since February. Klab release said that they could not wait approval so that they built the emulator from Amazon’s specification documents. Currently, not… Continue reading KLab Releases Amazon Kindle Compatible Emulator In Open Source
Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?
Kowa Computer Co. Ltd., who have been providing book publishing system for industry, revealed that they are to enter downloadable e-book market with their own smart-phone-sized device. The unique thing about their system different from Amazon Kindle and Apple iBook is, that the users will be able to download their e-book only at the retail… Continue reading Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?
First Japanese Manga On Amazon Kindle Released
Although Amazon Kindle is possible to order from Japan, Kindle and its backend do not support Japanese font well yet. Support for Japanese publishers in Japanese are not prepared, too. So, most Japanese people who currently own Kindle are gadget fans, English-savvy or for research purpose. And some people see potential on the device and… Continue reading First Japanese Manga On Amazon Kindle Released
Japanese Classics For Kindle
Amazon has recently announced their Global Wireless Kindle. However, as English only books are sold from Amazon.com, most Japanese couldn’t find the product very appealing. Takayama Kyosuke just released a web based tool which translates books from Aozora Project (Japanese equivalent to Gutenberg Project) to Kindle supported PDF format. To get your favorite Japanese classic… Continue reading Japanese Classics For Kindle