I haven't seen any official notice of this, so maybe everyone already knows and I just missed a press release, but while browsing the list of SuBLime Manga
yaoi books at their website, I started noticing some familiar titles.
It's hard to know whether number 2 or 3 above is responsible, but Amazon has instructed at least one publisher to remove
its yaoi books from the Kindle store, while allowing considerably more explicit male - female titles to remain.
Not exact matches
I love anime I love to read mangas and reguler
books as well I also like
yaoi I'm really wired and random at times but I'm very fun porson
Viz is working with the Japanese retailer Animate (which has been publishing
yaoi manga for the Kindle for a while now) and the publisher Libre, but they can license
books from other publishers as well.
In follow - up to their press release outling Digital Manga's newest endeavour, a preorder set - up that allows early releases for
books recieving high orders, their web blog now lists a variety of future
yaoi titles that will have the same opportunity for eager fans.
Just look at
Yaoi Press» troubles with getting their
books on the iPhone.
Then the buy feature was disabled, and Yamila Abraham, the publisher of
Yaoi Press and someone who knows a great deal about the biz, speculated that was because whoever put the
book up on Amazon didn't actually own the rights to it (something that has happened before, most notoriously with George Orwell's 1984).
Edit: Digital Manga has just tonight sent out a press release with more information regarding their Little Butterfly and Yellow omnibus
books, including news that they will both be available months early to attendees of
Yaoi Con.
(I haven't heard of any of them,
book or author, but I'm not as dedicated a follower of the
yaoi genre as some.)
Then read McFarland's scholarly pop culture
book Boys» Love Manga, and show your friends
yaoi can be spoken about in an intellectual way.
$ 12.95 Vintage: 1999 in Japan; Digital Manga published the
book in the summer of 2009 Genre:
Yaoi, mild (ages 16 +)
The first four
books are now available from SuBLime Manga, Viz's
yaoi manga partnership announced in November.
I've already reviewed most of her
books, including explicit
yaoi, tamer boys» love, school soap opera, restaurant reviews, and the not easily categorizable Antique Bakery.
Yaoi Press
books are only $ 5.63!
The
yaoi elements are extremely mild, so for anyone looking to explore the genre who is nervous about the sexual elements, this is a great
book to check out.
They've also had a history of pulling
Yaoi manga
books (gay romance stories).
It's odd reading a
yaoi manga that's set in the US among, as the
book promotion has it, the «high - society set».
From
book announcements made at
Yaoi Con, to the state of their imprints, you can read it all under the cut.
It brings in most new comic
book titles and offers a very good array of manga titles, including some that are often only available through orders, such as DMP's numerous
yaoi titles.
This is a
yaoi that I can see appealing not just to manga fans, but to open - minded comic
book readers as well.
After
Yaoi - Con, the
book will not be available until it ships to stores next year.
A synopsis and larger cover image for the
book can be seen over on the
Yaoi Press website.