Opens Japanese website
Amazon announces Amazon.co.jp, its first Japanese language website. The site will offer Japanese and English language content.
Bezos:
We can now make our customer-centric shopping experience—great service, selection and convenience—available to everyone looking for popular or hard-to-find Japanese-language books.
The site will offer book reviews, author interviews, and recommendations and will compete with existing Japanese retailers including Kinokuniya and Bertelsmann’s BOL.com