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eBook: Google To Launch Service In Japan Next Year

First Posted: 09/14/10 04:27 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:40 PM ET

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Google has announced it will launch its Editions platform for e-books in Japan in 2011 despite a "chilly" reception from major Japanese publishers, according to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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Google has announced it will launch its Editions platform for e-books in Japan in 2011 despite a "chilly" reception from major Japanese publishers, according to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP...
Google has announced it will launch its Editions platform for e-books in Japan in 2011 despite a "chilly" reception from major Japanese publishers, according to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP...
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12:58 AM on 09/16/2010
I thought Google Editions was compiled from Libraries in the West? Did Google scan the collections of any Japanese universities or the Diet? Well, I wish them good luck because old scrolls written in calligraphy still have a major following in Japan.
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