From ComputerWorld:
The text on Amazon’s newest Kindle reads top-to-bottom and right-to-left.
The massive online retailer announced its first Japanese-language e-reader on Wednesday, a version of its Kindle Paperwhite that will go on sale in mid-November. Amazon also said it will launch a new Japanese Kindle Store with 50,000 titles — including 15,000 manga, or Japanese comics — as well as Japanese mobile Kindle apps and its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablets.
The long-anticipated Japanese launch from Amazon, which is a household name among consumers in the country, comes years after some rivals. But e-books have yet to take off in Japan, and the Kindle’s aggressively pricing could finally convince many consumers to give them a try.
“This will be the real start of the of the Japanese e-book market,” said Kazu Saito an analyst at Japan’s ICT Research. “There is already a strong culture of buying from Amazon in Japan, people are comfortable with it. Many users will flow naturally into using Kindles.”
Link to the rest at ComputerWorld
Amazon, Ebook/Ereader Growth, Ebooks, International, Kindle, Tablets
Source:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/10/2012/kanji-kindle-amazon-e-reader-comes-to-japan-late-but-priced-to-move/