Voyager Japan and Sharp are planning to develop a new ebook format. Sharp Corp. (TSE:6753) and e-book software developer Voyager Japan Inc. will submit the specifications of their formats free of charge to the Electronic Book Publishers Association of Japan. The trade organization, consisting of 41 major publishers, will then create a common format by [...]
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Japanese ebooks added to the Hanvon ebookstore
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, hardware rumors
I came across an article today about how Hanvon had signed a deal to sell Japanese ebooks in their ebookstore. Tokyo-based media firm Creek & River Co. has signed a contract to supply content to Hanvon Technology Co., the largest producer of e-book readers in China, it has been learned. Creek & River plans to [...]
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89 Japanese publishers & tech companies kaunch digital publishing industry association
August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
From Trading Markets: A Japanese industry association for facilitating smooth cooperation among those in the e-book business was established Tuesday, headed by Dai Nippon Printing Co. (TSE:7912) and Toppan Printing Co. (TSE:7911). The Association for E-publishing Business Solution, or AEBS, started up with 89 members, consisting of electrical machinery, telecommunications and printing companies, as well [...]
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Japanese ebook market rose 24% in 2009
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Impress R&D (summary translated from Japanese) released a report yesterday on the Japanese ebook market. They found that ebook sales rose 23.7% in 2009 to 57.4 billion yen from 46.4 billion yen. (from $527m to $652m). That also predicted sales for 2014, but I’m giving the predictions the attention they deserve (none). If you’re looking [...]
First Japanese language ebook sells 10k titles in 5 days
June 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
You might recall that a couple weeks ago I reported on the first literary ebook in Japanese. I came across slaes data. Nikkei.com is reporting: The electronic version of the latest mystery novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku has sold 10,000 copies in five days since its release on May 28, publisher Kodansha Ltd. said Thursday. That [...]
ABBYY adds Chinese, Japanese and Korean OCR to their MobileToolkit SDK
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced the availability of its Mobile OCR Engine 4.0, a new version of the award-winning software development kit (SDK) for creating small footprint optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The key enhancement of the SDK is its new robust [...]
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31 Japanese publishers launch digital publisher’s association
March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
From The Mainichi Daily News: Thirty-one publishers in Japan, including giants Kodansha and Shinchosha, launched an electronic book publishers association on Wednesday, responding to gaining momentum in the electronic publishing industry. Members of the new organization, the Electronic Book Publishers Association of Japan, will research and collect information on the industry. The move comes ahead [...]
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