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NEWS: Amazon's Kindle Launches in Japan With 15,000 Manga Books




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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:08 pm Reply with quote
Sonava.......
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potatochobit



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:15 am Reply with quote
5000 of that is probably yaoi
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:25 am Reply with quote
so which company went digital when I wasn't looking?
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Utsuro no Hako



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:56 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:02 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:26 am Reply with quote
Gilles Poitras wrote:
This is the first Kindle to be able to handle non-Roman letters in text documents.


Wrong. It is the first kindle to handle Eastern Fonts in ePub. It can read the fonts in PDF.

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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.


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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potatochobit wrote:
5000 of that is probably yaoi


And this is a bad thing how...?
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Utsuro no Hako



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:52 am Reply with quote
Gilles Poitras wrote:
This is the first Kindle to be able to handle non-Roman letters in text documents.


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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:41 pm Reply with quote
osakaedo wrote:
Wrong. It is the first kindle to handle Eastern Fonts in ePub. It can read the fonts in PDF.

Such PDF files are not text, they are pictures of non-Roman characters but you cannot copy them, add them to notes etc.


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Gilles Poitras



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:43 pm Reply with quote
Utsuro no Hako wrote:

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.


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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:03 pm Reply with quote
they're really late ... dunno if they'll be able to compete.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:44 pm Reply with quote
Gilles Poitras wrote:
Utsuro no Hako wrote:

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.


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.
It's probably due to the most popular character encodings in the regions not being Unicode.
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