My book is now on http://amazon.co.jp but it still isn’t on the US Amazon!
The Japanese, of course, have long been fascinated by the works of von Jason Murk. I have no idea what they’re selling here, although they seem to be cross-selling my book with a Zojirushi rice cooker. The Japanese equivalent of Kaffe-und Espressogenuss perhaps? Personally, I think that a price of 1000 yen is too much for my book. 1000 yen is an awful lot. I had a layover in Japan for 3 days a few years ago, and it was so expensive that the only way I could afford to eat during those days was to hang out at the “B1F” levels of the Japanese department stores and eat the free food samples. Japanese department stores aren’t like Sears or J.C. Penny, no, Japanese department stores are ultra-luxurious spaceports. They’ve got chic bookstores and sushi conveyor belts and the remarkable “B1F” levels which serve as high-end grocery stores, sort of going to a Whole Foods store which is staffed by women in kimonos who offer you free chocolates and teriyaki eel. On the first basement floor (hence the B1F) of each Japanese department store, they offer samples of primo green tea & takoyaki & Belgian chocolates and normally, of course, Japanese social sanctions prevent people from pan-handling for free samples of food in such B1F grocery stores. You’d lose face, perhaps. But if you’re a 6-foot tall Westerner with a ragged beard and a yellow windbreaker, well, they don’t know that you’re just pan-handling food from these free sample stores. For all they know, you’re an ultra-chic hipster who’s come to relax in the spaceport upstairs, and it just happens that ragged beards and faded yellow windbreakers are in style in America….Enough of my B1F rant.Fact is, I’m on the Japanese Amazon now! Interestingly enough, when you translate this page into English (via the Google translation service)
it seems to offer you a maximum of 1000 cyclotomic restoration. Personally, I think you’re being ripped off. You should demand at least 2000 cyclotomic restoration. You won’t be able to read my book in Japan unless you have a really high cyclotomic restoration.Okay. Now that we understand the nuances of cyclotomic restoration, we should all follow the advice on this website and “buy this commodity cheaply”!
Of course, if such a thing as tadpole sushi existed, then my book would go over great in Japan! You’re not an artistic success in America until your art sells in the Midwest, and you’re not a success in Japan until your art is featured in a new form of sushi.
