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Digital manga site JManga to shut down, take all customers’ purchases with it

Chris Meadows — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:15:00 +0000

DRM opponents should be sending love letters to the Japanese Digital Comics Association. As of March 26th, its “streaming manga” website JManga (which I covered here before) will stop selling new manga—and as of the end of May, manga already purchased will become unavailable to view. And there is no way to download and back [...]

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New 3D-photographic scanner will capture 250 book pages per minute

Chris Meadows — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:45:00 +0000

CNet has a report on a new book scanner (Japanese) from Dai Nippon Printing that takes and corrects three-dimensional images of book pages, allowing for them to be scanned at the amazing rate of 250 pages a minute, meaning that the average book could be captured in little more than two to three minutes tops. [...]

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Quick Links: Amazon in the news

Chris Meadows — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:15:00 +0000

It’s an Amazon roundup! Here are some Amazon stories from the last few days that might not deserve full pieces by themselves, but are nonetheless interesting tidbits. Wired reports Amazon has released a firmware update for the Paperwhite that will allow readers to enlarge panes in manga novels—undoubtedly aimed mainly at the Japanese market, but [...]

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Manga scanlations hold up digital manga licensing

Chris Meadows — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:56:29 +0000

Publishing Trends has an interesting article looking at the problem of manga scanlation, which a number of manga publishers feel is retarding the potential international market for their product. Scanlation, the manga equivalent of fansubbing, has been around for a while, but really kicked into gear around 2007. (I covered this in detail a couple [...]

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Amazon suspends manga publisher account over yaoi manga

Chris Meadows — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:23:15 +0000

Amazon has pulled the plug on the account of an erotica publisher, Digital Manga Publishing. DMP is an importer and translator of Japanese manga (whose launch on Kobo we covered last year), and apparently one of its yaoi (homosexual male romance genre) titles ran afoul of Amazon’s prohibition on “Pornography and hard-core material that depicts [...]

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JManga portal offers digital manga subscriptions

Chris Meadows — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:29:29 +0000

Galleycat reports that a group of 39 Japanese manga publishers has launched a portal site called JManga, offering digital English translations of manga readable in a Flash-based on-line reader. The manga is for sale via point-based subscription, but also offers free one-issue previews. It has a number of popular titles now, such as Naruto and [...]

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Kindle 3 and Manga – handles them will with Mangle

Paul Biba — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:29:20 +0000

iReader Review has an article on the Kindle 3 and Manga. They have lots of screen shots and also go into great detail about how to get Mangle up and running on the K3. The Kindle 3 handles images really well – But can Kindle 3 handle Manga? K and 4rc wanted to find out [...]

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The Manga and iPad Romance

Paul Biba — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:50:01 +0000

From the Wall Street Journal The light weight iPad reader has added fuel to Japan’s budding e-book industry even though Apple’s digital bookstore iBookstore is not yet open for business in Japan. Still, the healthy stable of iPad and iPhone applications on offer via the Japanese iTunes store allows users to pick through a well-stocked [...]

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Japanese companies launch electronic manga award

Paul Biba — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:18:12 +0000

Anime News Network is reporting this award for manga available on mobile phones which will be the result of a poll running from June 11 to July 12. Here are the 20 nominations. Those marked with an * are available in the US in English: *Aa Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess!) by Kousuke Fujishima Ao no Fuuin [...]

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Manga publishers see piracy in ‘scanlation’ websites

Chris Meadows — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Publishers Weekly has a piece on Japanese and American manga publishers banding together to oppose “scanlations”—the manga equivalent of animé fansubs, where fans translate and repost manga for the benefit of non-Japanese readers. What they are objecting to is not so much the process itself (which they say has been going on since the ‘70s—have [...]

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Manga publishing for phones to go into high gear

Paul Biba — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:37 +0000

Anime News Network is reporting that Japanese publisher Sueisha will be developing an ebook business for anime in America and other countries. Sueisha will offer manga for mobile phones running Microsoft software. In a longer article the site says that the manga will be free at first, but will move to a fee-based service by [...]

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New Manga library opens in Japan

Paul Biba — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:58:24 +0000

According to The Japan Times, Professor Kaichiro Morikawa and the Meiji University will open the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures, which will house the 140,000-plus items of the late manga critic and subculture enthusiast’s private collection. Yoshihiro Yonezawa was among the first manga critics in Japan, and he helped to legitimize the [...]

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Manga to be available on French smartphones

Paul Biba — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:37:37 +0000

Well, I guess today is the day for emails. I don’t know why. It also seems to be international day. This one is from France, it follows one from Singapore, which, in turn follows one from Hungary. Received the following from Nicolas Gary and thought it well worth reprinting: We have good news for french [...]

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More Manga on the Sony

Paul Biba — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:53:27 +0000

From Manga Xanadu, by Lori Henderson: While looking around for links to add to my e-reading section, I stumbled upon these posts about putting manga on the Sony E-Reader. They feature the PR-500, but the current, less expensive version, the PR-505, is essentially the same. These include an extensive comparison of color comics, scanalated manga, [...]

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