On November 29, 2009
Comic Book Downloads Drive eBook Market in Japan
Comic books have long been a big deal in Japanese publishing, and in recent years the ability to download comics to cellphones has driven sales upward, especially by readers who like to access their comics while riding the country’s commute trains. eBook Japan, the industry leader in the island nation, lists some 26,000 comics among its 33,000 titles that can be downloaded via the company’s free app. Users can store up to 50 eBooks for free at the site’s “trunk room,” which is also where they can download titles to their cellphones. For a fee, they can store additional titles there. The site also offers a similar kind of pre-paid gift card that have been such a boon for iTunes…
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