Amazon carries out a Kindle Voyage called "culmination of the Kindle series" and experience experiences of new products

Amazon is the latest model of e-book reader · Kindle "Kindle Voyage"Which greatly improved the performance from the previous generation machine"Fire HDX 8.9"You can experience new products such as"Kindle / Fire New Product Experience Meeting"And" Presentation and Award Ceremony for Creating KDP Awards "was held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Of these, Kindle Voyage will be on September 18Suddenly reservation reception startedIt is scheduled to ship from November 4 (Tue) on the terminal that made it.

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The venue was Meguro Gajyoen


Just before the trial session started


Mr. Konishi Mr. Misa Konishi of the Amazon Japan Public Relations Division was in charge of the progress.

Introduction Mr. Ichiro Tamaki of Amazon Japan Vice President Kindle Business Headquarters attended.


The Kindle business of Amazon in Japan celebrated the 2nd anniversary of opening a Kindle store on 25th October 2012 and selling terminals. Both the e-book reader and the tablet began business, and also started its own direct publishing. The award will start at the 2nd anniversary.

The number of Japanese books at the Kindle store was originally 50,000 volumes, but after 2 years elapsed, it was 5 times 250,000 volumes. Among them, the comic goes from 15 thousand volumes to 6 thousand, ninety thousand volumes. According to the questionnaire conducted by Amazon that e-books have been opened up by comics.

The use scene of Kindle is mainly moving, but some people are looking at the living room.

In addition, there are many answers such as "Why do not you take space" and "Low price than paper" in the question of what Kindle is fascinated by, and learners say that "you can search inside the book" He said that.

Following Tamaki's greetings, Yuusuke Tomoda, director of Kindle content business, talks about "Kindle".

Kindle's vision is "to put every book in every era anytime anywhere, any language at hand".

One of the initiatives is "Kindle direct publishing". This is something that any person can sell anything on Amazon at Amazon. One example is the "10 th company" published by KDP in 2013 "Ghost ≠ noise (reduction)".


By publishing with KDP, it caught the eye of publishers, in January 2014Published by Tokyo Creative CompanyIt was reached.


Also, although Kindle books (Kindle books) could only be read by tablets and smartphones for a long time, in September 2014 they wereKindle Cloud ReaderReleased. So that even Kindle books can be read on PC.

As a project that makes full use of the function and readability of Kindle, sales of "Modern Digital Library" of the National Diet Library will be launched. More than 1,000 volumes will be delivered within 2014 and will be added in order.

Next on the Kindle body, the story of Ryo Ogakiuchi of Kindle Device & Accessory Division. Two years have passed since the sale, finally the same lineup as the United States was completed. "Kindle" that you can purchase at a price of 6980 yen is perfect for those who want to easily start e-book readers.

"Kindle Voyage" is said to be "a model that can be said to be the culmination of Kindle", with 300 ppi high resolution in the lightest and thinnest design, the page button is restored by incorporating a pressure sensor at the bottom of the screen, Enable page feed without swipe operation.

Not only hardware but also software aspects evolved. For example, "Word Wise" scheduled to be released soon is a function to put an explanation like an English word in ruby, and if it is a person familiar with English according to the user, there is only a little explanation, but a person not familiar If it is easy to understand it will be more explanatory.

The new function "Mayday" is a 24 hour, 365 day video call on customer support, and it will guide you by writing arrows and circles on the terminal. In addition to being able to support by remote control, it responds within 15 seconds when necessary. Although I can see the face of a person who supports it, I can not see the face of a supported person (customer) side.

The first Kindle terminal was a bigger enclosure than the present, with many buttons, the arrangement of keys was a bit different, but from that we have evolved this way. Tamaki says that the thought there is "It's Still Day 1", that is, aiming to provide a fresh experience to the customer and to satisfy the experience, without forgetting the original intention.

◆ KDP Award
KDP Award "AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2014" awarded to KDP authors who succeeded in book sale and customer review was created, and Mr. Takashi Takagi was selected as the first winner.


Takashiro's comment:
I have done various activities so far. The times have always changed, my occupation, the media, the way of expression itself have changed a lot. I think that the genre called e-book will grow to be a wonderful adult now even children. I am pleased that what I was evaluated at this timing of the 1st time than anything else. It is up to now to seriously try new media. Thank you for today.


According to Takagi san, for example, there are many books that convey the charm of Hawaii, but there are no books that wrote about which is the most wonderful on the south islands, so if you think that you are working It seems that we are going around the south island between us. On the other hand, even if I can plan the book, I will not let any publisher publish. In that respect, it is said that a new form is born in that publishing is possible if it is KDP.

book"World of 2035Takagi says that Kindle version will be on sale on October 23 and 30, said that "digitization" has changed the world significantly and that there will be major changes in society as well. KDP 's "White Book" "Kurodo" that I came out in such a case is a summary of the Q & amp; A corner of the e - mail magazine "Takasagi Mirai Research Institute Future Report". Although originally thought that it wanted to make it to a book through a publishing company, publisher says that because there are various pieces of stuff, it is sometimes impossible to write and some deletion etc was requested, so it is said that we decided to issue it with Kindle. As a result, different interesting things come out from the books sold at bookstores, and readers are also asking for opinions such as "I want one book for one month". In addition, despite being refused publication once again, it seems to have been asked by publisher to publish again from the publisher, but there is still no difference in being cut away, Takashiro "There is a strength that KDP can do so only by doing it personally."


Also, as the "native Kindle generation" comes out in the future, people with strong transmission skills will have "uploading power", and even in books and pictures, unlike anything else, anyone can freely publish It is Takagi san. With uploading capability, downloading power is attached, reading method of book also changes, so if the reader / device / society changes, it is intuitive feeling that the writer side must also grow.


Finally for the person who wants to make a work like Mr. Takashiro, "I do not have time, I have a lot of excuses ... I think there are lots of excuses, but I think that I should write it anyway" It is important that what you think is good and trying to write about yourself is not to be afraid of yourself.If you do not fear yourself, I think that's the most important thing, It left me.

Amazon's Tamaki san & Takashiro


In addition, at the experiences meeting this time I was able to touched the new terminal such as "Kindle Voyage" carefully, so I reviewed it finely in the next article.

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