The new version of the Paperwhite device has huge available storage for the graphic novels.

The new Amazon Japan Kindle Paperwhite has been unveiled and this device has a massive amount of storage. It was created this way to help readers to be able to store books with much heavier file sizes. The reason is that manga books are immensely popular there and the graphics need far more room.

The Kindle Paperwhite manga version provides users with 32 GB of storage.

This is about eight times larger than the traditional model of the Amazon Japan Kindle – and those from around the globe for that matter – which is only 4 GB. This makes it possible for readers to store several whole series of manga comics on their ereaders, said an Amazon statement. Moreover, slow page-turning rates won’t get in the way of users of this new model. That function has been sped up by 33 percent to ensure that readers stay lost in the manga world.

Until now, the new manga Kindle had yet to be released. That said, Japanese consumers could pre-order it for only slightly more than the cost of the standard device. The pre-order price was about $157 (¥16,280). Amazon Prime subscribers can enjoy a hefty discount at about $118 (¥12,280).

The Amazon Japan Kindle manga version will start shipping today, with preorders heading out first.

This version of the Kindle e-reader will be the first one with the accelerated page turning rate. That said, the faster page turning performance will also be updated into other Kindles. Amazon expects that those improved features will become available to ereaders other than the manga-focused device by the end of October.

It is likely that the Kindle Paperwhite version for manga will remain a product exclusive to the Japanese market. The reason is that while manga does have a notable following around the globe, it doesn’t even approach the level of popularity in Japan. Moreover, the standard 4 GB devices are not small when it comes to standard books.

One ereader with 4GB can easily hold a library of up to thousands of standard books. As a result markets outside the Amazon Japan Kindle don’t have much reason to try to expand their capacity.

New data showed Irish consumers are getting on board with the chance to use digital supermarkets.

SuperValu has now released data showing mobile grocery shopping is on the rise in Ireland. While it has made an online version of its supermarkets available for some time, it credits smartphones with the growth.

The grocery store has seen a tremendous increase in traffic to its site throughout the last year.

In fact, SuperValu stated that it has seen a 50 percent increase in site traffic since 2016 began. It credits mobile grocery shopping via smartphones and tablets. According to a spokesperson from the supermarket chain, “Supervalu online shopping has seen overall traffic to its website grow by a massive 50% in 2016, over the previous year. This shows a massive shift in customer behavior towards researching offers and buying food online.”

Mobile grocery shopping has been credited as the largest factor boosting traffic to the website.

This, according to the SuperValu spokesperson. The company saw an increase in mobile commerce use by 114 percent at its own site. This produced a massive 200 percent spike in its revenue. Over the last few years, the grocery store chain has been working hard to keep up with the changes in m-commerce trends. In this way, it has been able to embrace and benefit from mobile growth.

There was such a large rise in the amount of mobile use of the SuperValu site that the company launched a site specific to smartphone-based needs. Its mobile optimized and responsive m-commerce website first launched in August. It was designed to meet the needs of consumers who were making it ever more clear that smaller screens were their preference.

“Since the launch of their new mobile-responsive website, six weeks ago, mobile usage has accelerated, to grow by 175% compared to the same period last year,” the spokesperson said.

SuperValu isn’t the only supermarket to have witnessed these trends and placed a focus on mobile. Tesco began with e-commerce back in 1998 and has noticed an increasing consumer trend in online shopping. They have also pointed to mobile grocery shopping as a reason for this shift.