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Digital Manga News from Japan, USA, and Canada. Learn about new manga apps, services, and platforms: statistics and Revenue.

New York Times Axes Graphic Novel and Manga Bestseller List

The New York Times has decided that they will no longer provide…

Amazon Strike is a Prime Only Anime Streaming Service

Amazon has just unveiled Strike, which is an anime streaming service only…

Viz Media Invests in Manga and Anime Discovery Site Kitsu.Io

There are hundreds of e-book discovery websites but when it comes to…

Manga Sales Continue to Increase in the United States

Manga sales in the United States have increased every year for the…

Amazon is Prioritizing the Manga Experience on the Kindle

Amazon has announced that they are going to be pushing out a…

Major publishers are bullish about graphic novels and manga

The big five publishing houses are very bullish about the future of…

Crunchyroll and Funimation Form a New Partership

Crunchyroll and Funimation have formed a unique partnership that will be a…

Digital Comics are not Cannibalizing Print

When e-books first started getting popular in 2009, the traditional book selling…

Is the Icarus Illumina XL a Good Manga Reader?

The Icarus Illumina XL e-reader features an eight inch screen, which is…

Walmart is creating a dedicated Graphic Novel Section

In the next few months Walmart might be opening up a dedicated…

Crunchyroll Signs a Distribution Deal with Discotek for Anime Movies

Crunchyroll has always been known as a streaming anime service provider, normally…

Overdrive now has hundreds of new manga titles available for libraries

Overdrive, the largest provider of audiobooks and e-books to public libraries is…

Crunchyroll attains $22 million in funding

Crunchyroll has just garnered $22 million in funding from Otter Media in…

Comic Pool Luanches Digital Manga Magazine

Comic Pool is a new digital magazine produced by Ichijinsha, a Japanese…

Kobo now offers manga e-Books from Kodansha

Kobo is now offering manga in EPUB from English manga distributor Kodansha.…

Netflix is Developing Second Exclusive Anime Series

Netflix is developing another original anime series based on The Seven Deadly…

Japanese Digital Publishing News – October 2015

The Japanese digital publishing market has been soaring to new heights on…

Top Manga Reading Apps for Android – 2015

Manga e-reading apps have really grown up in the last few years…

ComiXology Now Offers Tons of Mainstream Manga

Kodansha Comics is well known in the industry for producing some of…

550,000 People Attended Comiket 88 in Tokyo

Comic book conventions in North America the last few years are less…

Young Japanese Manga Writers Targeted by New Copyright Law

Aspiring young novelists in North America often get their start by writing…

Best New Anime You Need to Watch – Summer 2015

Many of the top anime that debuted in the Spring is now…

Barnes and Noble Puts a Priority on Manga

Barnes and Noble has announced that they are going to double the…