There’s no Chinese-language Kindle e-reader yet, but Amazon has launched a Chinese Kindle store with Android and iOS apps for reading ebooks.
Reuters reports that “In June, four Kindle models, including the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire and as well as one Kindle keyboard, received approval from the State Radio Regulation of China, the regulatory body for radio and wireless products. Amazon’s former China chief told Reuters this year that the company was in talks with Chinese publishers on content deals and hoped to launch the Kindle within two years.” But Amazon has gone ahead and launched the store in the absence of a dedicated reading device.
I explored the Chinese Kindle store with the help of Google Translate, so take this all with a few grains of salt, but some notes:
- The store includes 24,479 ebooks.
- The top-selling book is Rip It Up by British pop psychologist Richard Wiseman. In Chinese its title appears to translate to Positive Energy. In the #2 slot is the Nobel Prize-winning Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan.
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