{"id":8668,"date":"2010-05-30T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8668"},"modified":"2010-05-30T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T05:00:58","slug":"sony-kddi-asahi-and-toppan-to-co-launch-e-publisher-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/sony-kddi-asahi-and-toppan-to-co-launch-e-publisher-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony, KDDI, Asahi And Toppan To Co-launch E-Publisher In July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sony's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sony-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"22\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"KDDI's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kddi_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"46\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Asahi Shimbun's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/asahinewspaper.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"35\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Toppan's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ToppanPrinting_Logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"28\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com\/\">Sony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppan.co.jp\/english\/\">Toppan Printing<\/a> (Japan&#8217;s 2nd largest printing company), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/english\/\">KDDI<\/a>(Japan&#8217;s 2nd largest telco) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/\">the Asahi Shimbun<\/a> (newspaper publisher) announced last Thursday that they would launch a joint venture for an e-publication distribution service.\u00a0\u00a0 Sony has introduced an e-book reader device called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningcenter.sony.us\/assets\/itpd\/reader\/\">Reader<\/a>&#8221; in Europe and the U.S., and the company plans to introduce it in Japan by the end of this year in rivalry with the combination of Apple&#8217;s iPad and iBook Store.<br \/>\nFour founding companies take 25% stake each in the new company, and their distribution platform is expected to be in service in this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SonyReader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8669\" title=\"Sony Reader\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SonyReader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony, Toppan Printing (Japan&#8217;s 2nd largest printing company), KDDI(Japan&#8217;s 2nd largest telco) and the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper publisher) announced last Thursday that they would launch a joint venture for an e-publication distribution service.\u00a0\u00a0 Sony has introduced an e-book reader device called &#8220;Reader&#8221; in Europe and the U.S., and the company plans to introduce it in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/sony-kddi-asahi-and-toppan-to-co-launch-e-publisher-in-july\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sony, KDDI, Asahi And Toppan To Co-launch E-Publisher In July<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[310,1942,3067,3454,3762],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-asahi-shimbun","tag-kddi","tag-reader","tag-sony","tag-toppan-printing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","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=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}