Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo and publisher Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) Tuesday announced a joint e-book service to take advantage of a wave of launches of tablet computers and e-readers.
The new venture, 2Dfacto, will on Wednesday open a Japanese online bookstore with an initial 20,000 titles, including books and manga comics, for users of smartphones and e-book readers marketed by NTT Docomo, the companies said.
The venture is set to expand to 100,000 titles over the next few months, including new books, magazines, newspapers and e-books embedded with music and video content, the companies said.
2Dfacto is in talks with "bk1", DNP's online retailer of printed books, and its physical bookstore chains Maruzen, Junkudo and Bunkyodo, to join forces and form a service selling digital and paper publications, they said.
"The result would be a truly digital/physical hybrid network comprising an online store for e-books, an online store for printed books and physical stores for printed books," the companies said in a statement.
Under the plan, the network's website would offer recommendations based on previous purchases from all three types of bookstores, network-wide loyalty points and an e-bookshelf to view network-wide purchases.
Other special functions planned to be launched this year will enable users to read the same e-book on multiple devices and share bookmarks and marked information among multiple devices, the statement said.
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments