Amazon has announced that they are going to be pushing out a new firmware update for the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Oasis. They intend on dramatically improving the manga reading experience with a critical new feature. Later this month Amazon will be introducing a new enhancement called Ultra-Fast Skimming. It will give users 33% faster single page … [Read more...] about Amazon is Prioritizing the Manga Experience on the Kindle
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Digital Comics are not Cannibalizing Print
When e-books first started getting popular in 2009, the traditional book selling industry started to experience declines. Over the course of the next few years bookstores started to go out of business and many people thought print would die completely in the near future. Comics on the other hand have been immune to the disruption of digital. A new study by CNBC tracked the … [Read more...] about Digital Comics are not Cannibalizing Print
Overdrive now has hundreds of new manga titles available for libraries
Overdrive, the largest provider of audiobooks and e-books to public libraries is getting into the manga business. The company has just signed a deal with MediaDo and Kodansha Advanced Media to distribute popular Kodansha Manga e-Books to public and academic libraries in the U.S. and Canada. Starting today there are over 400 individual titles from over 50 different series … [Read more...] about Overdrive now has hundreds of new manga titles available for libraries
Crunchyroll attains $22 million in funding
Crunchyroll has just garnered $22 million in funding from Otter Media in a bid to expand their engineering division and focus on original content. Crunchyroll says that it now has 20 million registered users, and expects to have 750,000 paid subscribers by the end of 2015. 80% of all users speak English and come from the North American market. They watch the equivalent of … [Read more...] about Crunchyroll attains $22 million in funding
Comic Pool Luanches Digital Manga Magazine
Comic Pool is a new digital magazine produced by Ichijinsha, a Japanese publisher, and Pixiv, an online platform for artist. The two companies have joined forces to produce a new electronic magazine entitled comic POOL, which debuted today. The goal of the magazine is to nurture up-and-coming manga artists by highlighting their work and promoting it to more casual online manga … [Read more...] about Comic Pool Luanches Digital Manga Magazine
Kobo now offers manga e-Books from Kodansha
Kobo is now offering manga in EPUB from English manga distributor Kodansha. This will allow readers to read hundreds of of popular series such as Attack on Titan, Noragami: Stray God, Vinland Saga, The Seven Deadly Sins and Your Lie in April. Kobo initially signed an agreement with Kodansha in January when they added popular weekly and monthly manga magazines for men, such … [Read more...] about Kobo now offers manga e-Books from Kodansha
Japanese Digital Publishing News – October 2015
The Japanese digital publishing market has been soaring to new heights on the worldwide stage, thanks to hundreds of companies releasing apps and developing new business models. According to a new research report by Statista, Japanese readers have spent the most money on e-books per individual user, around $86.50. Following closely behind are digital readers in the U.K. who … [Read more...] about Japanese Digital Publishing News – October 2015
Top Manga Reading Apps for Android – 2015
Manga e-reading apps have really grown up in the last few years as companies are starting to employ more features in order to standout in a crowded landscape. Some are trying to emulate the flat design principles that Google is hyping and others are just giving you an excellent user experience. Lets take a look at the best manga apps of 2015. Zingbox Manga - ZingBox is a … [Read more...] about Top Manga Reading Apps for Android – 2015
550,000 People Attended Comiket 88 in Tokyo
Comic book conventions in North America the last few years are less about comics and more about Hollywood hyping television and movies. Comic-Con is a fine example of this, all of the major news agencies talked about Disney, Star Wars and the Avengers. Meanwhile, in Japan things are quite different, the 88th annual Comiket just wrapped up and over 550,000 people attended the … [Read more...] about 550,000 People Attended Comiket 88 in Tokyo
Young Japanese Manga Writers Targeted by New Copyright Law
Aspiring young novelists in North America often get their start by writing fan-fiction and developing a ravenous following on websites such as Wattpad. If they have very a large fan-base, its quite easy to get a publishing deal, if not, self-publishing is a viable career choice. In Japan things are quite different and fan-fiction authors are the target of a new multi-national … [Read more...] about Young Japanese Manga Writers Targeted by New Copyright Law