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Kinokuniya was always my favorite bookstore.
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yes, more competition is good
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09-26-2012, 02:44 AM | #20 |
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There is a Kinokuniya in the Isetan Building on Orchard Road in Singapore that was always my favorite bookstore. There was something about the layout that just made me want to spend the afternoon in there wandering through the stacks. The one in Osaka doesn't affect me that way.
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BTW, how do you like guessing what people might be listening to while wearing earphones? JPop? Punk-Rock? Samba? Classical? or perhaps audiobooks?
really, how likely it'd be?... |
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Can't remember audio books being popular in Japan, I know they exist but don't think I've ever seen them prominently displayed.
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First I will say the obvious. I am not an expert on Manga, but it appears on the surface to just be a comic book styled form, very detailed elegant drawings.
I can see that color would be important but now that we have (besides generic tablets) color eReaders, that should be no problem. I can see how sometimes there would be the need to put a lot of information/picture detail on a single page, but we have more and more pixels to work with and even larger screens, so that should help. Anyway, my questions are: Do we sell the American form comics for and on Kindles? If not do we expect to sell them like we seem to expect to sell Manga which is the thought I see in this discussion. |
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Actually, manga are in black and white, it is literally pulp fiction. The paper quality is of the lowest quality permitting print. Color is out of the question so an eInk device is fine.
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The Kinokuniya in the Paragon building in central Bangkok is very pleasant and I always spend a few hours there when I am in Bangkok. It is the only place where I can browse English, Japanese and Chinese books in the same place. There was a big Kinokuniya near Town Hall in Sydney when I was last there a few years ago. I wonder if it is still there. It was the only place in town where you could get cute Japanese stationary. BookOff, the Japanese used-book chain, has a big store near Opera in the centre of Paris and they opened a French and English department across the street only a year or so ago. Looks like some shops survive the recent downturn in bookshops better than others. Last edited by Polyglot27; 09-28-2012 at 04:16 PM. |
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any news of when the kindle store might open in Japan? or any kindle news (in Japan)?
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