NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd. (BIGLOBE), one of Japan’s leading internet service providers, announced today that its Android-based bookstore application, SUGOI BOOKS, will now carry a wide range of major series from IDW PUBLISHING, the award-winning comic and graphic novel publisher.
SUGOI BOOKS will begin releasing popular IDW titles listed below from August 26, 2011. In celebration of this partnership, SUGOI BOOKS and IDW will offer the first issue of each series absolutely free of charge for the limited period of time. Regular chapter purchases will range in price from $.99 to $1.99.
SUGOI BOOKS aims to expand its IDW comic library to as many as 1,000 volumes by the end of this year.
SUGOI BOOKS IDW Launching titles:
TRANSFORMERS
Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur
Doctor Who: The Forgotten
True Blood: Tainted Love
Rocketeer
SUGOI BOOKS Summary
Â¥ URL: www.sugoisugoi.com
Androidâ„¢ Market:https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.ne.biglobe.topbooks.us
Â¥ Available Platforms: Android 1.6 or higher.
NEC BIGLOBE plans to release the SUGOI BOOKS app for iPhone/iPad, Symbian and BlackBerry.
Â¥ Payment method: PayPal.
About IDW Publishing, Inc.
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s Doctor Who; Toho’s Godzilla; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.
About NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd.
NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd. (Established in July, 2006, based in Tokyo) is a member of the NEC group, one of Japan’s leading IT companies. The company is one of the largest Internet service providers in Japan and offers a variety of networking services, content and applications, while boasting 19.56 million service users as of the end of June, 2011.
http://www.biglobe.co.jp/en
NEC BIGLOBE Contact (Japan):
NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd. Net Mart Division
+81-3-6479-5549
Toru Uchimura
e-mail: topbooks-a@bcs.biglobe.ne.jp
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