Book Providers Megathread (Official Management)

I just noticed I never wrote about kobo even though I’ve been using it lol

Kobo (ebook store for Rakuten)

Address: Local address required.

Payment: in Yen directly; some non-Japanese credit cards work, but not all; Paypal works;

international IP address: OK

Access: App for android and iOS devices (with offline functionality) and a PC software (with offline functionality)

Notes: sometimes it’ll be cheaper to buy in Yen directly rather then buying points

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audiobook.jp

Address: No local address required. No verification process.

Payment: in Yen directly; some non-Japanese credit cards work, but not all; Paypal works;

international IP address: OK

Access: App for android and iOS devices (with offline functionality) or downloading through the PC browser as mp3 files

edit: adding another site here since I can’t do it in a separate post (3 consecutives are a no-no :frowning: )

Ganma!

Address: No local address required. No verification process.

Payment: you buy point to read forward on the app (can’t see the option on the web version)

international IP address: partially OK, you need japanese google account and IP to find the app and to coins on the app

Access: App for android and iOS devices (with offline functionality) or reading on PC browser (internet required)

Notes: they’re a publisher themselves so they have a lot of free chapters of new content that you can regularly check

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Posting so @shablul can post again if they need

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Thanks for all these descriptions! I’ve added Ganma as an ebook provider (purchase only), however they won’t show up on the book providers page until you add a link to their site for one of the books :slight_smile:

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Ok, @Biblio @CatDQ I’ve reapplied for those amazons. I’ve changed my website description a little, so maybe we’ll get it this time! Please go ahead and buy 3 items if you can :slight_smile:

Also, calling anyone who uses Amazon.es! Please click through the amazon.es link on yotsubato or create amazon.es links yourself for books you want! This will be very important for spanish, but we’ll also be able to link to japanese books as well, so it’ll help you too.

Thanks again everyone!

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Only need to click?

Seems like they have an encoding problem

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… and purchase. I need 3 sales like the others :slight_smile:

And yes they have encoding issues hah

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Can be any item at all or it has to be in the books category?

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doesn’t have to be books I don’t think, no

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Alright give me a couple minutes. Is 3 items in one order fine or want me to create 3 separate orders?

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I’m honestly not sure. I think one order is fine but I do not know. 3 orders is probably safer…

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It has been done. (3 kindle books)

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Amazing! Thank you. I will let you know if they don’t come through :slight_smile:

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I appended the ?tag=natively04-21 to the URL to be extra sure :sweat_smile:

Might as well add those books to the available natively links.

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Which amazons are these? de and uk? If so, I may be able to help with the uk.

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yep, de, uk & es.

de & es are the majorly important ones, but uk doesn’t hurt :slight_smile:

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Is there an easy way to crawl the links in this

Into this?:

(hint to what I purchased)

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So Amazon is extremely aggressive against crawling. When i’ve attempted, i’ve been immediately caught and directed to use the API before I could figure out what to do.

It’s quite unfortunate as their API is quite limited. So no, we can’t crawl… but we can manually add those links to the ‘WhereToFindUrl’

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Alright. Is there a mass-edit back-end where you can throw the ASINs?

If not I’ll do it myself volume per volume.

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If you give me a bunch of asins / urls I can generate them sure.

FWIW, you can download the html on the series page obviously and parse the links for long series… but I don’t have it explicitly built for this use case.

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