The BookWalker Freebies Thread

Quick question - for the current book leading the IBC’s vote, I happened to discover there are 2 seemingly identical copies on Bookwalker, it’s just that one costs double. The preview looks… the same. The only difference I can find is the cheaper one was “published” 3 years later. Any insight as to what that is all about? Is the second one the digital equivalent of a paperback :sweat_smile:

And to make this at all relevant to the Freebies part of the Freebies thread - I tried out a way to find higher quality free prose on Bookwalker, which might be nice for someone looking to try out reading a book digitally and you’re not sure about the platform.

I sorted free novels by publisher and then looked at Kadokawa or Kodansha and found these two:

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「あなたの街の物語」コンテスト 受賞作品集

  • This is a collection of essays - 13 winning works from a contest called: “Story of Your Town”, which called for short stories and essays set in real areas of Japan.
  • This one is not on Natively since there is no Amazon entry.
  • For this one, it’s more like a scan - this will behave more like a manga and you will not be able to select text, etc. Normally for something that costs money there is a warning to alert you that the book will behave like that. By getting this one free you’ll be able to try it out zero risk and see if it is ok for you.

At least this way I thought people can try each type of prose experience on Bookwalker with whatever tools you use so that by the time you want to buy something, you’ll know depending on the type of display offered for the book, if it’s for you.

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