Like
Kobo, Amazon's Japan e-bookstore is hampered by limited title selection, but
the recent launch will motivate publishers to finally digitize their
catalogs.
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Discussion:
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Evidence
suggests that the most successful e-book retailers build on the mistakes of
the predecessors and being first-to-market isn't a key to success.
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week's issue of PublishNews Brazil features an interview with Penguin CEO
John Makinson, an overview of Brazil's e-book market, and Saraiva's latest
sales numbers.
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Following
Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize, Chinese officials plan to develop the
author's home village as a multi-million dollar cultural theme park and
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From the Archives:
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At
this year's Tokyo Book Fair in July and months before Amazon's launch of the
Kindle in Japan, Rakutan Kobo and Kodansha made it clear that their goal was
to "destroy Amazon."
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Publishing Perspectives - In Japan, Kindle May Finally Push Publishers Into E-books
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