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How Japan’s Discover 21 Hits Hot Trends to Produce Bestsellers

Yumiko Hoshiba, President, Discover 21

Tokyo’s Discover 21 publishing house, now launching in New York, has published a string of bestsellers at home by asking authors to address real-world issues with originality.

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The Fight is On: Which South Korean Publisher Will Snag Murakami’s Latest?

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South Korean publishers are in a bidding war to win rights to Haruki Marukami’s newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

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Fans Throng Japanese Bookstores Murakami’s New Novel

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Fans of Haruki Murakami lined up at bookstores Friday to be the first to buy his new novel, Shikisai wo Motanai Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi.

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Apple Soon to Offer 80,000 Japanese-language Ebooks

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News out of Japan suggests Apple will launch Japanese-language ebooks in January, with a selection of 80,000 titles from publishers including Kadokawa, Shogakukan, and Kodansha.

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On Transitioning from Fixed Book to Reflowable E-book Formats

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Realizing no single major Japanese vendor supported fixed layout e-books, Sakkam Press was forced to switch to reflowable formats. Here’s how they managed it.

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Amazon Cuts Japanese Kindle Price; Sony’s eBookstore Again on iOS

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Amazon lowered the price of its Japanese Kindle Paperwhite to 100 dollars, matching the price of the recently announced Kobo Glo, while Sony’s ebookstore is again on iOS.

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In Japan, Kindle May Finally Push Publishers Into E-books

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Like Kobo, Amazon’s Japan e-bookstore is hampered by limited title selection, but the recent launch will motivate publishers to finally digitize their catalogs.

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Google Play E-books, Nexus 7 Land in Japan

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Google has launched its Nexus 7 Android tablet, along with localized selection of content, including e-books and movies, in Japan.

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Murakami, Japanese Authors Pulled from Chinese Bookstores

Chip Kidd's book cover design for Murakami's latest book, 1Q84

The Ashai Shimbun reports Chinese booksellers are pulling Japanese titles from shelves, including Nobel favorite Murakami, in response to the ongoing territorial dispute.

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Best of 2012 (So Far): Business Strategy and Asian Publishing

Martin Levin

From impending acquisitions and rights strategies to breaking into the Japanese market…the best of our coverage from the first half of 2012.

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