Forum - View topicNEWS: Amazon's Kindle Launches in Japan With 15,000 Manga Books
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Sunday Silence
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Sonava.......
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potatochobit
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5000 of that is probably yaoi
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yamiangie
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so which company went digital when I wasn't looking?
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Utsuro no Hako
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For the record, you can purchase ebooks from foreign Amazon stores if you give them a billing address in that country -- doesn't matter if it's Wembley Stadium or the Louvre.
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Gilles Poitras
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This is the first Kindle to be able to handle non-Roman letters in text documents.
Let's see how they do in a market that already has several established readers for e-books. BTW the iPad is said to have 60% of the e-reader market in Japan as it already handles Japanese and a pile of other writing systems. |
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osakaedo
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Wrong. It is the first kindle to handle Eastern Fonts in ePub. It can read the fonts in PDF.
On the flip side the iPad has 15% of the eReader market in the US. Man, I wish the Nook was picked up by Japan instead. Some chains in the UK are using it now. |
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Cutiebunny
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And this is a bad thing how...? |
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Utsuro no Hako
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Not true -- Kindle 3 onwards support HTML unicode, which includes hiragana, katakana and most kanji. True you can't just type a document in Japanese or Russian and convert it to ePub, but you can convert it into the appropriate code. |
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Gilles Poitras
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Such PDF files are not text, they are pictures of non-Roman characters but you cannot copy them, add them to notes etc. Last edited by Gilles Poitras on Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:44 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Gilles Poitras
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Interesting to know, thanks. You would think they would publicize such features. The lack of ability to convert to ePub sounds like a problem. Hopefully soon there will be standards across platforms to make this even easier. |
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maaya
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they're really late ... dunno if they'll be able to compete.
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