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authors and editors, For more detail on us and what interests us, please also publishers. In general we are interested only in publications (paper or online, book or periodical) that are published in English (all or part). Expats in Japan (and former expats) and Japanese who write in English are especially welcomed as are those who have self-published or published through a small press that has little or no distribution power. JPGS (Japan Publications Guide Service) enters publications into our databases. From there we produce paper and online products such as JPGS Lite. Basic listing is free. We are only interested in publications that relate in some way to Japan and/or East/Southeast Asia. We are interested in all such English publications, both commercial and non-commercial, priced or unpriced, with or without the appropriate ISBN or ISSN. The easy way to become listed is for you to send us one copy of each new publication. Our associate is IMC (Intercontinental Marketing Corp.) also known as imcbook. They are book distributors and retailers. They are located in Tokyo selling throughout Japan and also online, http://imcbook.net. For overseas publishers and authors IMC is a doorway to distribution in Japan. We are not the biggest/best distributor, but we care. For authors in Japan, IMC reaches into the USA, Asia, Europe, etc. IMC is small, has been in business for nearly 50 years, is a niche player in publications distribution in Japan. IMC's specialties range from technical aerospace, to business management, to popular tradel guidebooks, and, of course, expat literature. JPGS will help you publicize your book. IMC may help you sell it. The truth is that most books are doomed from birth to be commercial failures even if academic, historic, literary or technical products of great merit. This is of no concern to JPGS, and many authors publish for reasons other than profit, but IMC must make a profit, or at least break even. IMC will do their best for you, but we suggest that you also search for other sales channels. On a case by case basis, we may be able to make some suggestions, but we have found that each book is a world unto itself and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. JPGS
address and contact details. If you have contacted
us in the past, please note that as of July 2005 there has been a
change of our Post Office Box address. Our current PO Box address
follows:
JPGS Ueno PO Box 13 Taitoku Tokyo 110-8691 Japan or the office at JPGS Centre Bldg. 2F 1-14-13 Iriya Taitoku Tokyo 110-0013 Japan The office is formally open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm. We are often open earlier, later, or on Saturday. We are only three minutes from the Iriya Station of the Hibiya Subway Line, just one stop beyond Ueno. Letters and books are best sent to the Ueno PO Box address. Magazines and catalogs may also be sent to the Taitoku address. Do not duplicate by mailing to both addresses. Or see the contact information at http://imcbook.net/address.htm Tel 81-3-3876-3073 Fax 81-3-3876-3627 Email jpgspbr{at}jpgsonline.com |
