I love
digital manga because it's supposed to give more freedom in what I read and when.
Not exact matches
Then bookmark the link,
because Ed has compiled an incredibly comprehensive set of links to
digital manga, both online and on mobile devices.
What you're not seeing here,
because I filtered them out, is a lot of free Nook books, both previews and full issues of comics, including several issues of the
digital manga magazine Gen.. The number 10 comic on my list is number 37 on the Nook best - seller list, meaning there were 26 free books that did better.
You shouldn't
because the
digital publishing industry in Japan classifies
manga as an e-book and all of the sales they garner gets lumped together alongside e-books.
The bulk of my BL buys were then one - shots from
Digital Manga and all chosen
because they're by creators whose works I've enjoyed before: Makoto Tateno's A Bloody Kiss Tonight, Yukine Honami's Stolen Heart and Yaya Sakuragi's Stay Close To Me.
Otodama, also a Youka Nitta series, was able to be licensed
because it was owned by a different company — Shinshokan — with whom
Digital Manga has a partnership.
The content in Yen Press has been severely limited
because they haven't negotiated the
digital rights to their
manga, so it's mostly their book adaptations (I'm not that into teen and pre-teen lit about vampires and werewolves).
The Kindle Buying Corner makes sense to debut in Japan
because Amazon has been heavily focusing on getting publishers to include them in their
digital distribution pipeline and make their
manga solution very competitive with the local market.
This isn't really a loss for the world of
digital manga,
because the app wasn't very good.
I'm hoping that
Digital Manga Publishing's temporary suspension of print publication doesn't end up hurting them in the long run, because they've seemed willing to try new things, like using Kickstarter for niche Tezuka titles to complement their print and digital off
Digital Manga Publishing's temporary suspension of print publication doesn't end up hurting them in the long run,
because they've seemed willing to try new things, like using Kickstarter for niche Tezuka titles to complement their print and
digital off
digital offerings.
Digital Manga Publishing stepped out of the mainstream by licensing Barbara (and funding it on Kickstarter),
because while it's from Osamu Tezuka, it's a strange, unconventional title.
The selection is small, but it's a significant leap forward for
Digital — because company is getting its manga out onto what appears to be the most popular platform for digital comics — and for comiXology, because the distributor is adding manga to its mix, and yaoi fans tend to be voracious r
Digital —
because company is getting its
manga out onto what appears to be the most popular platform for
digital comics — and for comiXology, because the distributor is adding manga to its mix, and yaoi fans tend to be voracious r
digital comics — and for comiXology,
because the distributor is adding
manga to its mix, and yaoi fans tend to be voracious readers.
I want to make it clear that it is not
Digital Manga's translation that is the problem,
because it appears to be sound (except for a handful of editing errors).
When I started covering
manga, in 2005, Tokyopop was trying to do a lot of this, but they couldn't
because the Japanese licensors traditionally didn't want to let you move on to the
digital platforms.
Most comics look like crap on the Kindle app
because of its small size and poor resolution, but the
digital files for these
manga are somehow better and they look fine.