Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo and publisher Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) on January 11 announced a joint e-book service to take advantage of a wave of launches of tablet computers and e-readers.
The new venture, 2Dfacto, on Wednesday opened a Japanese online bookstore with an initial 20,000 titles, including books and manga comics, for users of smartphones and e-book readers marketed by NTT Docomo, the companies said.
"The result would be a truly digital/physical hybrid network comprising an online store for e-books, an online store for printed books and physical stores for printed books," the companies said in a statement.
Other special functions planned to be launched this year will enable users to read the same e-book on multiple devices and share bookmarks and marked information among multiple devices, the statement said.
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