{"id":12957,"date":"2011-02-22T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2011-02-22T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:49:04","slug":"japans-book-publishers-decide-to-go-with-epub-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/japans-book-publishers-decide-to-go-with-epub-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJapan’s book market is said to be worth around $24 billion<\/a> (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.
\nAnd yesterday, Japan’s biggest business daily The Nikkei reported that the local industry made quite an important decision: book publishers and electronics companies have agreed to adopt EPUB 3.0<\/a>, an open e-book standard that’s currently common in the US, Europe and other places.
\nThe Electronic Book Publishers Association of Japan was launched<\/a> in summer 2010 and counts the country’s biggest publishers among its 43 members.
\nEPUB is supported by the Kindle<\/span> and the iPad, among others. EPUB 3.0, the next version of the standard, will support text printed vertically (i.e. Japanese) starting May this year.
\nUpdate:
\nSorry for the mistake: the Kindle<\/a> does not support EPUB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1005,1087,1728,1977],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-e-books","tag-epub","tag-ipad","tag-kindle","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}