Nintendo is looking to bring eBooks to children in Japan with the launch of 300 titles on the 3DS. According to Japanese publication The Nikkei, it has been reported that eBooks will hit the 3DS this fall. This isn’t the first time Nintendo has entered the eBook market either, as they previously brought the 100 Classic Book Collection onto the Nintendo DS back in 2008 within Europe, as well as bringing the application Bookstores Everywhere – originally named Bookstores Anywhere – to Japan last year. It is currently unknown as to whether such eBooks will make it overseas.
Does anyone even read books on handhelds?
No, but this is a first.
And no I’m not a first whore!
Lol! Good for you!
Maybe an iPad or a Kindle, but a 3DS, really Nintendo?
Nobody would want to read books on a screen that tiny…
Not true. i have a 100 classic books ds game that i read on my regular DSi. works great.
are these from the eShop, or procured by other means? (i’m honestly curious. i have a DSiXL) >[:)
I believe he has the 100 Classic Books game program they released. It’s awesome. You can buy it about anywhere on the net. It has 100 of the classics and the ability to get more from a built in e-store in the program. I also use it on the DSiXL and it is great.
awesome. thanx much! i’ll browse for it. i hope it includes Salinger and Hemingway. Kafka would be cool, too~ >[:)
The orignal DS systems were actually used for a lot of non gaming things in japan. They were even in classrooms in schools.
So, this sort of thing is not exactly without precedent for Japan.
Dud, there’s nothing wrong with reading text on a 3DS. Gamers do it all the time. Not much of a difference between an iPad and a 3DS when it comes to text display.
I agree…I’d rather carry my DS around than 300 books!
I actually loved the 100 books program and their brief store book downloads on the DSi. I would eagerly welcome a book store for the 3DS. I would like them to take it one step further. Sony dropped their comics store. It worked brilliantly, but it’s no longer around. I would love Nintendo to begin that. 3D comics would be awesome!
Not too many, but this good be a good using Stereographic display to help or help teach good reading habits for dyslexic readers, such emphasis on the line you are reading or word when you touch it. Say the bottom screen is zoomed out and the top screen is zoomed in honed in the word. You run your pen over the bottom text and it keeps with the words on the top.
I was just thinking it would be awesome if somebody made a choose your own adventure book-like game. I realize 999 came pretty close, but I mean without the puzzles. I’d get that if the story seemed interesting.
The old Goosebumps ‘Choose Your Own Ending’ stories would be good on there for the kids – used to love those.
Too bad pretty much everything but the iPad is outside of Scholastics radar for books.
such great stuff, i can now read on the 3ds. how innovative!!!!! nintendo is so innovative, just like the cat suit. just like mario bros and zelda, each one is innovative!!!!!
Oh you can read?
Sarcasm…gotta love it! ~ L ~)
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You learned to read.
Congrats.
Hey dudes the cancelled Battlefront 3 game was development for both Wii u and Wii.
http://www.cubed3.com/news/18691/1/star-wars-battlefront-3-was-in-development-for-nintendo-wii.html
Im not sure about the new Battlefront game from Ea but i believe there is very big chance for it to come Wii u, atleast i hope so.
Damn, one of those links takes you back to a post in 2008!
I want to read books on my Wii U gamepad, a bunch of the classics would be good, get to it Nintendo!
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Bring on Arthur books. Instant $$$ and <3<3<3
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I use my 3DS to read manga online so this is interesting.
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would love to see this brought to the U.S.
a single screen on my DSiXL is larger than that of my Xperia PLAY (which i’ve read on decently), and i’m guessing that the 3DSXL screens are comparable to that of the former?
plus, the 3DSXL–with its clamshell design–would look kinda like a book. remember Brain Age and the Professor Layton games? (or am i thinking Hotel Dusk?) >[:)
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If the kid really loves to read, he/she would not bother how tiny the screen is. Way to go Nintendo, great innovation. Thumbs up!
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