The signed and numbered edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 is limited to exactly 111 copies. The front and back covers are printed on Somerset, a 100 percent cotton archival paper, using a Swiss-made 1963 Gietz Art Platen hand-fed letterpress. The… Read More

If you are like this blogger, you’ve got eBooks in your Kindle account, eBooks in your Nook account, eBooks in your iBookstore account, eBooks in your Google Play account, eBooks in your Kobo account, and beyond. While sometimes its fun… Read More

By Publishing Perspectives The Ashai Shimbun reports that as anti-Japanese sentiment in China over the disputed Senaku Islands has spread, books by Japanese authors have been removed from bookstore shelves. Murakami is among the Japanese authors being pulled from Chinese… Read More

By Hannah Johnson The reading experience on a Kindle is like “reading through a tub full of dirty dishwater,” said book designer Carin Goldberg at an event entitled “The Next Chapter: The Design and Publishing of the Digital Book.” E-books,… Read More

When he was reading Haruki Murakami’s new 944-page book 1Q84 on his Kindle, Gizmodo blogger Mat Honan encountered an unpleasant surprise. One of the best-known features of the Kindle is its WhisperSync, that enables readers to stop reading on one… Read More

Amazon is very proud of its Whispersync technology, a tool that gives you the ability to read Kindle books on any device with your highlights, notes and the page you are on all in sync without having to use any… Read More

From The Bookseller: Vintage Publishing has published backlist titles by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami as e-books for the first time, ahead of the simultaneous publication of his latest work,1Q84, into hardback and e-book later this month. The e-books will… Read More

From The Bookseller: Vintage Publishing has published backlist titles by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami as e-books for the first time, ahead of the simultaneous publication of his latest work,1Q84, into hardback and e-book later this month. The e-books will… Read More

This article in The Wall Street Journal prompted me to check Amazon to see if the work was available in ebook form.  It is now on pre-order for delivery on October 25.  Priced at $14.99.  I ordered it.  Amazon also… Read More

From the Manila Bulletin: Unauthorized Chinese versions of popular Japanese novels, including works by best-selling author Haruki Murakami, have been sold as e-books on Apple’s online store, Japanese media have reported. Digital versions of Murakami’s “1Q84″ and of crime novels… Read More