Apple announced the launch of the iBookstore in Japan Tuesday, including titles from a number of the country’s largest publishers, promising “hundreds of thousands of books available for purchase.” The Kindle store opened there last October, which followed Japanese offerings from Kobo and Google Play. Japan is the 51st country in which the iBookstore operates. In Apple’s release, they also note that the iBooks app has been “downloaded 130 million times worldwide.” Separately, Smashwords noted that the iBookstore’s merchandising feature for self-published titles “Breakout Books” was featured at the top of the UK and Irish iBookstores. The blog details promotional […]
