No more books in Japan!!
With the existence of the iPad and such iDevices, there has been an explosion of start-ups, in Japan, offering consumers to turn their physical books to e-books as their living areas are so cramped!!
Japan has a large market for paper books and magazines worth $24 billion per year, which is the largest!!
Besides, the e-book market is just earning less than a billion dollar per year.
Book scanning was founded by Yusuke Ohki and Shinya Iwamatsu. Ohki said that his inspiration to start the business was his 2000 paper books which were crowding his small Tokyo apartment. As well as he added "the iPad's release is the biggest factor in making this business possible"
The main factor in making this idea work is the small living spaces in Japan. Where the Japanese consumers have to chose the iPad to enable them to have thousands of books in such a small device!
In addition, Japan's laws allow copies within the family or for personal use, but any kinds of reproducing a purchased work such as Book Scanning should require the publishers' permissions. That's why the customer should tick a box to confirm not to Book Scan!!
However, a secretary of the Japan Book Publishers Association says
"There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies, and huge amounts of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is LEGAL!!"
Courtesy macstories.net