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New Manga Launch on U.S. Kindle, iPhone, Nokia Ovi
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Bukiyou na Silent) - Vol.1.
Kindle Books can be read on Amazon's own Kindle devices (in several different versions); via a free App for iOS, Android, BlackBerry mobile devices; and via the free Kindle application for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
The Japanese company Recruit Morning magazine.
In the Drawer is a story about Saemi, who takes a glass button from her older sister's box of treasures. Saemi soon discovers that the button takes on a life of its own and is endowed with Saemi's secrets along with the other things hidden within her drawer.
Cyborg 009. The first two volumes of Solaruru's Always by Your Side are also available.
Kun Gao explained the service in more detail.
Crunchyroll and Bitway will not directly publish works of manga, but will offer a service for other publishers to have a means of distribution. The service has no launch date yet, but is planned be as accessible as possible through popular devices such as cell phones, Kindles and iPads. It is possible the manga may have multimedia features such as motion or sounds. Crunchyroll is also allowing many decisions to be made by the publishers; they will decide the age that works are geared toward, price, the option of rentals or purchases, and the possibility of simultaneously publishing a work online when it is published in Japan.
