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Nintendo Launches New eBook Store on the 3DS

December 19, 2013 By Michael Kozlowski 4 Comments

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Nintendo has been planning on rolling out a dedicated eBook store for their 3DS handheld gaming system for over a year. The company has officially launched it in Japan  and there is a collection of 300 titles right away. This move should encourage parents to upgrade from the ultra popular DS to get their child doing something other than gaming.

In order to get started you have to download the app from the Nintendo e-Shop.  The app is called “honto” and mainly has kids books and a few comics. Each title is retailing from 100 yen to  1,000 yen ($0.96 and $9.60 USD).  When  you download the app and buy a few books you are greeted by a very colorful UI.  There is a dedicated bookshelf for all of your titles, similar to iBooks.

The Japanese gaming giant has claimed it wants to add 1,000 titles by next year and also dip their toes into accessible manga and graphic novels.

You can think of this latest store has been the 3rd attempt to launch a digital reading platform.   Back in 2009 Nintendo started to get into the eBook craze by launching a cartridge based system and  released a series of  public domain titles in the US and UK markets.  In 2012 they wanted to launch an app-based store, but their plans fell through during the summer.

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Michael Kozlowski

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and Verge.

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  • corhen

    i have a hard time imagining a worse experience than reading a book on my 3ds…

  • Michael Kozlowski

    well to be fair, its only kids books right now. But i agree, the screen is rather small. I guess its like playing a JRPG and reading all the text.

  • corhen

    more than the size of the screen, i worry about its resolution.

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