News Flash: Apple started e-book sale in Japan

Apple just released iBooks 3.1ver. and it was important update in Japan. Because...

Japanese e-books were sold in iBookStore. Japanese iBooks had only overseas e-books and public domain e-books until now. However, there is full of bestseller books now. Popular comics ONE PIECE and popular light novel Haruhi Suzumiya are included in them, too! The main publishing companies participating in iBooks are Kadokawa group, Kodansha, Shueisha, Gentousha, PHP Institute, Kobunsha...etc. They are major publishing companies all.
This will become the big menace for Japanese e-book platforms.