Amped wrote:It is announced that on the release day of Morning Musume. '20 Oda Sakura's new photobook "SAKURA COLOR", Wani Books is also releasing all 3 of her previous published photobooks (Sakura Moyou, Sakura Breeze, Sakura no Kisetsu) in digital e-books form on April 30th. They are only slightly cheaper at 2,000 yen.
Also beginning in May, Wani Books is planning to release digital e-book versions of "Hello! Project" photobooks one after another. The lineup will be announced.
*Digital photobooks can be purchased at e-book bookstores such as Amazon, Rakuten kobo, Sevennet, and DMM.com.
http://www.helloproject.com/news/11989/
I'm assuming there's some kind of region locking still going on here.
I have a Kindle & use the Kindle App on iPad. I buy books from to the US store.
You can normally easily transfer your Kindle store preference to any of the other national Amazon sites you also have an account from.
It is for all intents and purposes the same account you can log in to with your same credentials.
But Amazon Japan, like any Japanese version of popular sites and services, has always been its own thing.
As much as I can figure out I'd need to change my address to a Japanese one or make a second account just for Amazon Japan Kindle purchases
According to some people's experiences that I found online I might even have to use a VPN.
That's a lot of trouble to go through for me possibly just wanting a digital back-up of my physical photobooks.
Of course overseas fans aren't the target market here, so this is still a good thing for anyone in Japan.
In addition, despite what you'd think, de-DRMed copies haven't popped up online (since I paid for the physical originals I'd consider myself ethically in the clear).
Either that or I'm looking in the wrong places.
I might try one of the other sites when I have the time.