Digital comics and manga are notorious for printing weekly issues for years. This is a massive barrier to new readers who want to start at the very beginning. Amazon is seeking to make peoples lives a bit easier with a new experimental program that bundles 25 issues into a single purchase. Amazon Japan has just launched the Kindle Buying Corner that bundles popular manga … [Read more...] about Amazon is Experimenting with Selling Digital Content in Bulk
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Amazon Japan Overtaking the Competition
One of Amazon's most recent global marketplace initiations has been in Japan, where device manufacturers at one time found a slow adoption of digital reading. Rakuten, at one time the leading e-reader manufacturer in Japan--and now parent company of Kobo--reigned supreme, but that's quickly changing, due in large part to Amazon's model as much as to its devices. So what is … [Read more...] about Amazon Japan Overtaking the Competition
Amazon Launching New eBook Store in Japan October 25th
Amazon will launch its new ebook Store in Japan starting October 25th! This will include over 50,000 Japanese-language Kindle books, the largest number of Oricon best sellers, and over 15,000 manga titles. The company will also bring the Kindle Fire HD Tablet and Kindle Paperwhite e-Reader along for the ride. "After twelve years of selling print books on Amazon.co.jp, we are … [Read more...] about Amazon Launching New eBook Store in Japan October 25th
Amazon Expected to Launch Kindle in Japan Next Month
Amazon had been expected to release its Kindle line of e-readers and new ebook store in Japan late this month. This launch has been postponed until next month while publishers are busily converting digital content over to Amazon's proprietary ebook formats. The Nikkei newspaper said that Amazon is hurrying to secure Japanese content in time for the year-end sales season. The … [Read more...] about Amazon Expected to Launch Kindle in Japan Next Month
Amazon to Start eBook Store in Japan This Year
Amazon has opened up many international versions of its ebook store this year which steadily increases its global reach. Germany, France, Spain, and other countries have all been targeted with many other European countries to be opened up by the end of 2011 and during the first quarter of 2012. The company is currently in talks with major Japanese publishing companies, … [Read more...] about Amazon to Start eBook Store in Japan This Year