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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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In France, lack of legitimate e-book availability of comics leads to piracy

Chris Meadows — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:28 +0000

Publishing Perspectives has an interesting article about comic book piracy in France, focusing on a report by the Paris government’s “Le MOTif” book and writing “observatory”. The third in a series of reports on piracy that began in 2009, Le MOTif zoomed in on comics, as this is the category of books that is pirated [...]

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B&N and Viz Media team up for manga on Nook Tablet and Nook Color

Paul Biba — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:08:06 +0000

From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of digital media and educational products, today announced that it has teamed up with VIZ Media, LLC, the largest distributor and publisher of anime and manga in North America, to bring the digital manga (graphic novel) experience to NOOK Tablet and NOOK [...]

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Digital Manga and Harlequin team up with Barnes & Noble

Paul Biba — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:13:19 +0000

From GoodEReader: Digital Manga, mostly known for manga comics and graphic novels, has teamed up with Harlequin to bring 20 books to the Barnes and Noble bookstore. This is a large partnership not only between Digital Manga and Harlequin, but also Softbank. Softbank was the company responsible mainly for the localization in foreign languages with [...]

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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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Digital Manga Publishing launches on Kobo

Paul Biba — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:23:00 +0000

From the press release: Digital Manga, one of the manga industry’s most unique and creative publishers, is proud to announce its digital distribution expansion on to Kobo books— http://www.kobobooks.com/ —a global eReading service, providing readers with a global alternative to the Amazon Kindle. Kobo have distributing partners with Canada’s Chapters Indigo, Borders US & AU, Australia’s [...]

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Comixology launches free authoring tools program

Paul Biba — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:32:49 +0000

According to Publisher’s Weekly Comixology is setting up a beta program for authoring tools: David Steinberger, CEO of Comixology, said preparing comics for the Guided View technology is a “labor intensive” process that has caused a backlog. While Comixology can convert up to about 200 new comics a week for delivery through the Comixology app, [...]

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Negima’s Akamatsu Plans Free Site for Out-of-Print Manga

Paul Biba — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:11:41 +0000

The Anime News Network is reporting that: Manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Love Hina) announced on Monday that he is launching a “J-Comi” website that will eventually post out-of-print manga for free with advertising support. He is working with Ryusei Deguchi (Abenobashi: Magical Shopping Arcade ) and other fellow manga creators, in [...]

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From Japan: Bringing the pirates on board, by Eugene Woodbury

Paul Biba — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:47:00 +0000

Only a tiny fraction of the $4-5 billion manga market in Japan is licensed and published in the U.S. every year (to say nothing of the backlist). As a result, websites that host “scanlated” (scanned and translated) manga have become a major source of supply to meet the growing demand by manga fans. Acknowledging the [...]

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Viz Media releases free manga app for the iPad – free volume 1 of Death Note

Paul Biba — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:10:42 +0000

Publishers Weekly is reporting this and I, personally, find it exciting news. According to PW, Viz will be offering volume 1 of Death Note for free for a limited time. Viz publishes Bleach, Death Note, Dragon Ball, Naruto and others. Alvin Lu, senior v-p and general manager of Viz Media, said that while the details [...]

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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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