{"id":7591,"date":"2010-02-24T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2010-02-24T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:22:13","slug":"planned-in-japan-e-books-only-downloadable-at-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/planned-in-japan-e-books-only-downloadable-at-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At&#8230; Bookstore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kowa-com.co.jp\/\">Kowa Computer Co. Ltd<\/a>., 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.<br \/>\nThe 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 bookstores.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28507258@N04\/2771595036\/\" title=\"\u89d2\u5ddd\u66f8\u5e97\uff0e\u7981\u6b62\u9032\u5165? by Kuroi Nanako, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3203\/2771595036_d2496a5d95.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\u89d2\u5ddd\u66f8\u5e97\uff0e\u7981\u6b62\u9032\u5165?\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKazuhiro Shibazaki, the president told &#8220;Bookstores in town are the cultural centre of the area. Their disappearing means diminishment of culture&#8221;.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/digital\/bcnnews\/BCN201002150011.html\">Asahi Shimbun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/planned-in-japan-e-books-only-downloadable-at-bookstore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At&#8230; Bookstore?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[473,478,976,1003,1616,1977],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-book","tag-bookstore","tag-download","tag-e-book","tag-ibook","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\/7591","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=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}