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camtosh · 07-22-2012, 10:37 PM

Hi, another Canadian living in Japan here. Not likely to buy ebooks from Kobo if they block me from the ones I want at Cdn prices!
@kumaryu: Just noticed this story in the Japan Times from Friday, which quotes Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani: "We'd like to be successful globally as a Japanese company. Japan has wonderful content that we'd like to export."

Wonder why then they are blocking cross-border purchases? duh. It reeks of the usual shafting of the Japanese consumer that happens here in all areas of life.

"Publishers, other firms pin hopes on e-books"
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120720f1.html

One thing the article notes is the move to expand library lending of Japanese e-books, so maybe eventually you can get your brother to set up a library card for you and access it by VPN?

07-22-2012, 10:37 PM	#35
camtosh Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 40448 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Tokyo Device: Kobo touch	Hi, another Canadian living in Japan here. Not likely to buy ebooks from Kobo if they block me from the ones I want at Cdn prices! @kumaryu: Just noticed this story in the Japan Times from Friday, which quotes Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani: "We'd like to be successful globally as a Japanese company. Japan has wonderful content that we'd like to export." Wonder why then they are blocking cross-border purchases? duh. It reeks of the usual shafting of the Japanese consumer that happens here in all areas of life. "Publishers, other firms pin hopes on e-books" http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120720f1.html One thing the article notes is the move to expand library lending of Japanese e-books, so maybe eventually you can get your brother to set up a library card for you and access it by VPN?