Books on Phones Sell Well

Aug 9, 2007

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A couple of interesting statistics for the past year from the Digital Content Association of Japan (from Anime New Network):

Sales of electronic books (including manga) on phones grew 331.3%
Sales of e-books (non-phone) grew 69.7%

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Jean Snow is Production Services Manager at Ubisoft Shanghai.

Previously, he was based in Tokyo for over 15 years, where he lived and breathed design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes (he was also Executive Director at PechaKucha). He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired’s Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.