Apple will sell ebooks in Japan

Apple will launch a fully fledged iBookstore in Japan this year, Japanese newspaper The Nikkei reports [paywall, only a snippet is free]. While iBooks has been available there since 2010, Apple and other e-reading companies faced reluctant publishers. Now, with Kindle , Kobo, Google  and Sony all selling ebooks in Japan, Apple reportedly has agreements with Japanese publishers Shogakukan,...