The venture is set to expand to 100,000 titles over the next few months, including new books, magazines, newspapers and e-books embedded with music and video content, the companies said.
2Dfacto is in talks with 'bk1", DNP's online retailer of printed books, and its physical bookstore chains Maruzen, Junkudo and Bunkyodo, to join forces and form a service selling digital and paper publications, they 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.
Under the plan, the network's website would offer recommendations based on previous purchases from all three types of bookstores, network-wide loyalty points and an e-bookshelf to view network-wide purchases. --
