A new survey in Japan shows that Amazon's Kindle is leading the market for ebook sales, with Apple (launched in March) second, followed by Kinokuniya's Kinoppy, Sony's Reader Store and Kobo.… Read More

That same Japanese craft-based sensibility that brought us origami and ikebana has obviously been at work again—in book stacking. Thanks to Rocket News 24, we can now gaze in wonderment at the awesome creativity and dexterity of bookstore shelf stackers… Read More

Sure, the Seattle Public Library's world-record breaking "book domino chain" is awesome, but how about these amazing shots of book stack architecture from bookstores in Japan.… Read More

We’ve supposedly seen the Xperia Togari a few days ago in a leak that featured a bunch of big display phablets on a tablet. Well, since that leak was 99% bogus, it’s time to get real and check out the… Read More

Apple has suddenly whacked up the prices of a number of its iDevices in Japan, with a weak yen cited as the cause of the hike. Anyone who was considering buying, for example, the 128GB iPad will now have to… Read More

Best-selling hybrid author Barbara Freethy sells ten times more Kobo ebooks internationally than she does in the U.S.“Kobo is really good internationally,” she said, talking to Digital Book World at Book Expo America.In the U.S., Kobo is thought to have… Read More

While the Apple App Store leads the app market in terms of total revenue, a new report from Distimo suggests that Google Play is capturing more revenue share in the app business. The report, which compared revenues from Apple’s App… Read More

Amazon has expanded the Amazon Appstore globally and it is now available in almost 200 countries including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,China and Japan, and it will soon arrive in Brazil. As part of the promotion of its Appstore… Read More

Tokyo's Discover 21 publishing house, now launching in New York, has published a string of bestsellers at home by asking authors to address real-world issues with originality.… Read More

Yesterday evening, we posted as our final story of the day a fascinating article about a new Nintendo video game titled Tomodachi Collection: New Life, which has been described as not unlike a Japanese version of The Sims. The crux… Read More

Smart phones can now be equipped to tackled your olfactory perception with this whimsical Japanese gadget from Chaku Perfume. The device is a small attachment to your phone that can transfer scents wirelessly for $60. Chaku’s representative suggested that the… Read More

Nintendo’s Wii U and the PS Vita proved to be the biggest gaming “turkeys” of the past year, in terms of sales. However, the Wii U got a recent price cut and now it gets a new direction, that will… Read More

New York-based game developer Gutpela, a company whose clients include Adult Swim and OMGPOP (now Zynga), has designed a new iOS video game app called Sidewalker which is inspired by New Yorkers who race down the street when they are… Read More

Amazon has launched its App Store in China. The store offers thousands of apps including the popular Angry Birds, Subway Surfers and Temple Run, to name a few. Amazon introduced a Kindle Store in China a couple of months back.… Read More