{"id":18156,"date":"2012-10-24T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18156"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:45:12","slug":"amazon-kindle-finally-to-land-on-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/amazon-kindle-finally-to-land-on-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle Finally To Land On Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon Japan announced to accept pre-order of Kindle devices on today October 24.
\nKindle Paperwhite<\/a> is said to be sold from November 19 (Wifi = 8,480 yen, 3G = 12,980 yen). One can purchase 3 units maximum according to the product page.
\nKindle Fire HD<\/a> (16G = 15,800 yen, 32G = 19,800 yen) and Kindle Fire<\/a> (12,800 yen) would be sold on December 19, 2012. Both product pages say you may buy at most 5 units.
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bookstore<\/h3>\n

The most important part for Japanese user, Kindle Bookstore itself will be opened tomorrow, on October 25<\/a>.
\nThe initial number of Japanese e-books is over 50,000, including 10,000+ free books from Aozora-bunko<\/a>, Japanese version of the Project Gutenberg<\/a>. 50,000 is better than Rakuten Kobo<\/a>, but not may as Japanese top players who are offering 60,000-400,000. Over 1.4 million foreign books are also available but that won’t appeal much for regular Japanese readers.<\/p>\n

Amazon Android Appstore<\/h3>\n

Amazon Android Appstore is “being planned” at this point. Amazon Japan tells that popular titles such like Nikkei’s digital version, Final Fantasy III and Puzzle and Dragons will be available.<\/p>\n

price comparison with competitors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nprice in Japan (yen)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
iPad Mini<\/td>\n28,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Nexus 7<\/td>\n19,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon Kindle Fire HD<\/td>\n15,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon Kindle Fire<\/td>\n12,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Amazon Japan gave a forehand notice “Coming Soon” on June 26<\/a>. In September, Kindle Japan Store page was leaked<\/a> though without Japanese books. Amazon’s English release seems to have several Japanese major publisher names, however, in Japanese message, their names are not displayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon Japan announced to accept pre-order of Kindle devices on today October 24. Kindle Paperwhite is said to be sold from November 19 (Wifi = 8,480 yen, 3G = 12,980 yen). One can purchase 3 units maximum according to the product page. Kindle Fire HD (16G = 15,800 yen, 32G = 19,800 yen) and Kindle… Continue reading Amazon Kindle Finally To Land On Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18157,"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],"tags":[199,1791],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}