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Originally Posted by camtosh
A Japanese friend bought one and is disappointed in the lack of titles to buy, so I told him about Calibre and sideloading. Any sources for Japanese epubs out there?
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I don't know of any, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there. I tried working with a friend of mine (native and lives there) to do a short story translation of one of my works, but translations are such a HUGE amount of work...and humor ... or fantasy themes are probably the hardest to translate. I think the short story market might be good in Japan as I know they have a couple of fairly successful short story magazines. Magazines in general are popular over there from what I've seen. Well, it's been years since I was there, so perhaps that has changed.
All this is interesting because Kobo is also launching their "upload" works (The equivalent of Amazon's upload your work dashboard). It's not in bad shape, but CS is slow to respond and when they do, at least in my case, they aren't sure of the answers. I was leery of using yet another uploader and having to keep track of pricing and formatting and whatnot on it, but in general it went smoothly. I think it will be better than going through Smashwords, although currently there's still a disconnect in the search for getting everything to show up right...
I'd like to say it's growing pains, but they've been around for a long time so I'm just holding my breath and keeping fingers crossed. I'd love to see a decent market in Japan. Since I lived there for a year, I kind of have a soft spot for it.