{"id":5089,"date":"2009-08-09T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2009-08-09T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:27:22","slug":"an-easy-way-to-switch-old-fashioned-publishers-into-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/an-easy-way-to-switch-old-fashioned-publishers-into-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Way To Switch Old-Fashioned Publishers Into Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Logo of Wayz Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/wayzjapan_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"49\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Logo of Zasshi Online.com\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/zasshi_online_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"36\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayz.co.jp\/\">Wayz Japan[J]<\/a>, a Tokyo-based tech start-up company which develops e-publishing platforms, recently released two services that allow old-fashioned publishers to switch themselves into digital as easily as 1-2-3.<br \/>\nLast week the company introduced an iPhone\/iPod touch app allowing users to browse the latest issues of 400 magazines.\u00a0\u00a0 Without visiting a bookseller nor worrying about possibly being warned by a bookseller&#8217;s clerk to stop your browsing, you can check out TOCs and thinned pages of your favorite magazines for free.\u00a0\u00a0 To avoid paying high commission of the iPhone\/iPod in-app transaction, you can make no purchase to download the entire edition of what you wish to read, however by clicking a button prepared for each magazine on the app, you&#8217;ll be redirected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-hon.ne.jp\">e-hon[J]<\/a>, an online bookseller operated by Japan&#8217;s major book distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohan.jp\/\">Tohan[J]<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5091\" title=\"Screenshot: Magazine List\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/magazineonline_magazinelist.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot: Magazine List\" width=\"211\" height=\"317\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5092\" title=\"Screenshot: People Daily\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/magazineonline_peopledaily.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot: People Daily\" width=\"211\" height=\"317\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=DI*rT3VhJlY&amp;offerid=94348&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=2192&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D324946616%2526mt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Available at AppStore\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/available_at_appstore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMeanwhile, the company also introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimbun-online.com\/\">a website[J]<\/a> aggregating local newspapers being published around the country, and made us possible to subscribe to it both in digital and in paper-printed form.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently seven local newspapers are participating in this service, and the company expects to enlarge the variation up to 50 newspapers by the end of this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Each issue costs JPY100 (approx. USD1.10) without some exception, and it mostly equals to a newsstand price.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5090\" title=\"Shimbun Online: Shimane Nichinichi Shimbun\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/shimanenichinichi_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Shimbun Online: Shimane Nichinichi Shimbun\" width=\"277\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayz Japan[J], a Tokyo-based tech start-up company which develops e-publishing platforms, recently released two services that allow old-fashioned publishers to switch themselves into digital as easily as 1-2-3. Last week the company introduced an iPhone\/iPod touch app allowing users to browse the latest issues of 400 magazines.\u00a0\u00a0 Without visiting a bookseller nor worrying about possibly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/an-easy-way-to-switch-old-fashioned-publishers-into-digital\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Easy Way To Switch Old-Fashioned Publishers Into Digital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[5,9,17,23],"tags":[1008,3304,3712,4035,4241],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-company","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-e-hon","tag-shimbun-online","tag-tohan","tag-wayz-japan","tag-zasshi-online","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}