2012/02/11 02:00 – Amazon Bringing Kindle E-Readers To Japan
Will Japanese Kindles be enough to save Amazon Japan?
TOKYO Nikkei–Amazon.com Inc. will start selling its Kindle e-book readers in Japan as early as April for less than 20,000 yen, The Nikkei learned Friday.
The Kindle Touch, which the world’s biggest online retailer launched in the U.S. this past November, will likely be the flagship model in Japan.
Amazon will team up with NTT DoCoMo Inc. 9437 to enable wireless downloads of e-books over the mobile phone service provider’s network. Kindle users will not have to pay communications charges for e-book purchases over the DoCoMo network. They will also have the option of using Wi-Fi connections where available.
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Hi, I tried to send the following text as an answer to your recent mail, but it was bounced by your mail software as spam. Let’s try this way:
thank you for reading, and thank you for your question!
I should take the occasion of the spring break to find out some more about this question, since I don’t have any solar panels on my own roof myself. But I really should give some thought to practicing what I preach, even if
my small roof here won’t make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.
I assume that banks would lend cheap money for this kind of project. And there is a feed-in tariff in place already for rooftop solar (in contrast to other forms of renewable, where the law passed last year will only come
into force in July of this year).
Are you aware of the pages at:
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These seem to give an interesting introduction to the roof-top feed-in tariff.
I don’t think that Japan will default any time soon or that there will be hyperinflation to get rid of the 200% GDP debt. But if that should happen, having one more loan for a solar system might actually prove to be a good deal.
Yours sincerely
Karl-Friedrich Lenz