"Scapon" which makes e-books cheap at books at home

Starting with the iPad released at the end of May, although it is thought that e-books are expected to become popular in Japan, if you can digitize books at home as well, you want to digitize them. A service that can cheaply and easily accept such a request "Scapon"Has appeared.

It is a pleasant service for the user who is troublesome to digitize by oneself because it is a service that undertakes an electronic book conversion from one volume.

Details are as below.
Service guide - computerization of book (book) / PDF, if scan service 【scapon】


According to this page, "Scapon" is a service to contract PDF of books on bookshelf at home and books sold through mail order service on behalf of users who want to save time and effort to scan books themselves That's right.

The service contents look like this. Just send the book at home to the scapon, or just set the shipping address such as Amazon.co.jp and Rakuten Books to the designated address.


The books that can be scanned can be A4 size and can request from 1 to 5000 volumes at a time. The outputted file format is "PDF ver1.3 - 1.6 color / gray 300 dpi / black and white 600 dpi", it is said that it can be delivered to the user by the file transfer service "Dropbox" or DVD - R. The cost of work is 90 yen per book, and in the case of 350 pages or more, an additional charge of one book is required for every 200 pages.

Please note that it is not covered by the service for thin pages books and magazines such as dictionaries and townpages because there is a possibility that static electricity may be generated and the scan may be hindered.

1 book 90 yen ~ computerization of book (book) / PDF, for scan agency service - scapon -