Where to sell books in Japanese
KDP publishes Japanese ebooks and paperbacks, but not hardcovers. Besides KDP, 7 stores and distributors we know take Japanese ebooks.
Where each format sells
Ebook
- Amazon KDP
- Apple Books
- Kobo Writing Life
- Google Play Books
- Barnes & Noble Press
- Draft2Digital: A distributor to many stores.
- PublishDrive: A distributor to many stores.
- IngramSpark: A distributor to many stores.
Paperback
- Amazon KDP
- Barnes & Noble Press
- Draft2Digital: A distributor to many stores.
- IngramSpark: A distributor to many stores.
Hardcover
- Barnes & Noble Press
- IngramSpark: A distributor to many stores.
Good to know
KDP sells Japanese ebooks and prints Japanese paperbacks for Amazon.co.jp, but not hardcovers. Authors living in Japan sign up to Rakuten Kobo Writing Life rather than Kobo Writing Life.
Its home Amazon store
Books in Japanese are usually listed first on Amazon.co.jp, which sells in JPY.
A fixed book price law applies to Japanese books sold there: see Japan.
Other languages
Every language KDP lists, with its formats and stores.
Publishing in Japanese? PenStranding builds the edition for every store that takes it, with that store's typography for the language.
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Checked on 12 October 2026 against KDP's supported languages, Apple Books languages, Apple Books' special terms, Google Play Books languages, Kobo Writing Life, Empik Selfpublishing's terms. Stores, agencies and laws change their rules: their own pages have the final word.