Amazon.com Corporation may perhaps enter the Thai e-book market this year and additionally launch its Ipad readers inside the market place, the actual Nikkei business enterprise every day described.
The largest internet dealer, which plans to developed an online e-book shop 2010, is in final periods of negotiations along with publishers like Shogakukan Corporation, Shueisha Inc, Kodansha Ltd and Shinchosha Creation Co, the Nikkei claimed.
Midsize publisher PHP Company Inc is anticipated to give you about 1,1000 digitized titles To make sure you Amazon, the day by day reported.
Japanese publishing have been reluctant to offer you content material to The amazon marketplace above concerns that your retailer will put up for sale e-books at as much as a discounted of 90 %, as with the U.Ohydrates., the day-to-day proclaimed.
The Japanese e-book market ended up being estimated at only 29 billion yen ($846.10 million) in financial 2010, compared with a couple of trillion yen pertaining to printed books and magazines, Nikkei mentioned.
Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Forum
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Star Wars isn’t Science Fiction. In general, its given the genre a bad name.
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Haven’t had much time for reading of late, but I recently came across Brandon Sanderson’s “The Reckoners” trilogy. Book 1 is “Steelheart”, and it’s really good. The entire trilogy is great, and I recommend it to all.
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I’ve been reading Alex Scarrow’s “TimeRiders” series lately and have really been enjoying it.