eBook Scanning Services Emerge In Japan

eBooks are a great way to save on space, especially when you live in a cramped apartment. Thus was the impetus behind Yusuke Ohki’s new 120-employee startup in Japan that has undertaken the service of scanning print titles into iPad-formatted eBooks for people looking to save space.

Ohki’s business is not unusual. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: “Japan’s cramped living conditions and the arrival of the iPad in May have spawned as many as 60 companies offering to turn paper books into e-books as publishers have been slow to provide content for electronic readers.