Amazon has opened a Japanese Kindle Store, offering best sellers in books, bunko, and manga, and over 50,000 Japanese-language titles.
The Japanese-language titles come from a wide range of publishers small and large, including Bungeishunju, Gentosha, Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shinchosha, Shogakukan and Shueisha.
In total, the store offers over one million titles, including the best sellers in English and other languages and more than 15,000 manga titles overall.
“After 12 years of selling print books on Amazon.co.jp, we are excited to offer Amazon.co.jp customers the new Kindle Store, with the largest selection of the books people want to read,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon.com.
The Kindle store is available to anyone with Android phone, Android tablet, iPhone, Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite.
Kindle Paperwhite is Amazon’s new e-reader which is 62 per cent more pixels than the previous generation Kindle, making text in books crisp and clear at any size. Images are sharper, richer and show even more detail. At just over 9.1 mm thin and weighing 213 grams, Kindle Paperwhite is thinner than a magazine.
When a customer orders a Kindle Paperwhite, it arrives pre-registered to their Amazon account and greets them by name. All of the customer’s Kindle content is there waiting for them to download and start reading – no long set-up process, and no syncing with a cable.
Kindle Paperwhite also comes with instant access to the Kindle store right from the device, including all of the features customers love about shopping on Amazon – personalised recommendations, customer reviews, one-click purchasing and more.
Its free domestic 3G connection through NTT DoCoMo means customers don’t have to hunt for or pay for a Wi-Fi hotspot – they simply download and read books anytime. Amazon pays for the 3G connection on Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G, so customers pay no monthly fees and sign no annual contracts.
The new Kindle Paperwhite is available for pre-order today for only 8480 yen while the Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G is priced 12,980 yen. Both are available for pre-order at www.amazon.co.jp/kindlepaperwhite and will begin shipping on November 19.
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