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Whenever I come back to Japan i buy lots of books. Literally lots of them.
It'd be really nice if Japanese books are available for Kindle, or Sony Reader or whatever eBook device. The Japanese book industry is crap (like their movie/music industries are) and it probably needs another 5 years or so for them to finally adapt to the technology.
They also have their ridiculous no-repricing regulation that doesn't allow selling books in lower price, which I suspect breaks the antitrust law.
I agree. Kindle is quite convenient.
Posted by: Sudoku | 2009.12.28 at 13:29
Then, please give me these, I'll return it as PDF for you :-P
Posted by: drikin | 2009.12.31 at 13:20
I got some feedbacks like that, but seriously, that doesn't really solve any problems. I don't wanna go back to Japan to buy books. I just want to buy and read book wherever and whenever I want.
If you live in .jp and do that for me for free, then that's great :D
Posted by: miyagawa | 2009.12.31 at 17:40
The PDF solution is exactly like ripping CD as MP3. Once ripped that's convenient, but you still have to buy a CD, and to do that you have to go back to Japan or ship them for a ridiculous shipping fee. I'd rather just buy from iTunes.
Posted by: miyagawa | 2009.12.31 at 17:46
I completely agreed your though but It is pretty nice solution intermediately. Honestly I shipped the books to my friend who live in Tokyo then... :-P
Posted by: drikin | 2009.12.31 at 20:20