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gaijinpunch wrote:J-******?
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111019/tc_nm/us_******_japanese
American Oyaji wrote:I know we redact certain words from time to time, but why this one at this time or is this to prevent spider searches?
Mulboyne wrote:Yashio Uemura, the head of Tokyo Denki University Press, is quoted in a Mainichi report saying the following:
Uemura is no dummy, and has written extensively on the impact of new media, but he seems to be comparing apples with oranges there. I've no doubt that reading and publishing habits are different in Japan and America but there are plenty of book lovers in the US just as a lot of Japanese also routinely throw away cheap paperbacks.
Typhoon wrote:Foreign skis will not work in Japan because Japanese snow is different..
--- Some Japanese bureaucrat trying to justify the high tariffs on foreign skis.
Typhoon wrote:Foreign skis will not work in Japan because Japanese snow is different..
--- Some Japanese bureaucrat trying to justify the high tariffs on foreign skis.
U.S. online retail giant Am@zon(dot)com Inc. will introduce an e-book service using Kin.dle readers in the Japanese market by the end of this year, it has been learned.
Am@zon(dot)com has been negotiating with multiple publishers in Japan since last year, informed sources said.
The U.S. firm aims to expand into the country's e-book market, targeting the strong customer base established through Am@zon's online shopping service.
So far, few details have been disclosed about Am@zon(dot)com's Japanese e-book business, such as the number of titles. Currently Sony Corp. and other firms sell e-book readers priced between 20,000 yen and 30,000 yen. Am@zon(dot)com is likely to offer lower prices, the sources said.
The e-book business is taking off in the nation, with traditional publishers, book store operators, printing firms and others getting involved. The Japanese market is expected to triple from its current size to 200 billion yen in 2015...
Taro Toporific wrote:As I said before, Ultra has issues with the 'Am-a-zon Tax' impact on small online businesses.
[INDENT]Am-a-zon Boycott Over Internet Sales Tax Gains Momentum
huffingtonpost.com| 8/16/11
Am-a-zon is facing a boycott from a coalition of nonprofits in California over its opposition to an internet sales tax. The group is calling for users to cancel their accounts unless the world's largest internet retailer stops its attempts to force a repeal...more...
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Mike Oxlong wrote:Am@zon to launch Japan e-book businessU.S. online retail giant Am@zon(dot)com Inc. will introduce an e-book service using Kin.dle readers in the Japanese market by the end of this year, it has been learned.
Am@zon(dot)com has been negotiating with multiple publishers in Japan since last year, informed sources said.
The U.S. firm aims to expand into the country's e-book market, targeting the strong customer base established through Am@zon's online shopping service.
So far, few details have been disclosed about Am@zon(dot)com's Japanese e-book business, such as the number of titles. Currently Sony Corp. and other firms sell e-book readers priced between 20,000 yen and 30,000 yen. Am@zon(dot)com is likely to offer lower prices, the sources said.
The e-book business is taking off in the nation, with traditional publishers, book store operators, printing firms and others getting involved. The Japanese market is expected to triple from its current size to 200 billion yen in 2015...
Coligny wrote:
The Ipad is approxymately 300 billions times better for ebook reading anyway...
CrankyBastard wrote:Yay! And I finally got Stanza to work again.
Coligny wrote:Book publishing will certainly suffer a death worse than music publishing...
Coligny wrote:Book publishing will certainly suffer a death worse than music publishing...
But a different one...
Unlike music... There's plenty of publication that would be totally worthless in digital format even given for free. Starting with any illustration book in A3/B3 size... they will never find the same appeal on tablet...
Meanwhile for anything text only... those books that were barely making sense to put on paper... (Tom Clancy, Harry Potter, Twilight)... or outrageously priced school books(*), with the printing cost down to 0 the publishers can totally eat shit and die... (*)as well as the writers for this category, since they were just badly aggregating public domain datas...
Once again... if they want to sell... they will have to put added values... not added restrictions... which was never a mindset they were prepared for...
Dreamy_Peach wrote:It's just frustrating really. After a while living here you get used to being at the cutting edge - housing quality and standards, the latest pharma drugs, advanced banking services, sophisticated and competitive airline markets, business models, education systems etc. I just don't get it why on this alone Japanese business is maybe 2-4 years behind.
Dreamy_Peach wrote:It's just frustrating really. After a while living here you get used to being at the cutting edge - housing quality and standards, the latest pharma drugs, advanced banking services, sophisticated and competitive airline markets, business models, education systems etc. I just don't get it why on this alone Japanese business is maybe 2-4 years behind.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:You are taking the piss, right?
I'm Australian and Japan's lag in technological progress in the service sector(outside of mobile phones) makes Australia appear as technologically advanced as I had imagined Japan would be. And I'd say Australia lags significantly behind the Untied States and Western Europe in most of these areas.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:You are taking the piss, right?
I'm Australian and Japan's lag in technological progress in the service sector(outside of mobile phones) makes Australia appear as technologically advanced as I had imagined Japan would be. And I'd say Australia lags significantly behind the Untied States and Western Europe in most of these areas.
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