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Manga goes mobile…who will follow?
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The NY Times has a piece by Miki Tanikawa on manga’s shift to mobile phone distribution in Japan, and we expect that just about every word of this article will strike as a hammer blow to US publishers. Most of the move is in women;s comics, and the customers are women:
“It brought back memories,” she said, adding that she had once owned the whole series, which she kept in her room. “I sold all of them because they were crowding the space. But for just a few clicks on my mobile, I was able to read them all again.”
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Miki Tanikawa looks at the cellphone-manga boom in Japan:
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... However, there’s one major (and familiar) obstacle to the further growth of mobile manga: the publishers, who “are afraid of destroying the old business model.” In most cases, Miki Tanikawa reports, they release mobile content only after it has appeared in magazines and collected volumes. [The New York Times] ...
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... the cellphone “the savior” of manga. Who’s driving the boom? Women, primarily. According to an executive at publisher Shueisha Inc., women account for about 70 percent of cellphone manga readers. However, there’s one major (and familiar) obstacle to the further growth of mobile manga: the publishers, who “are afraid of destroying the old business model.” In most cases, Miki Tanikawa reports, they release mobile content only after it has appeared in magazines and collected volumes. [ The New York Times ] Publishing | Marc Graser looks at the increasing use of comic books to ...
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The Webcomic Overlook is back to provide you the weekly scrapbook of webcomic news. So grab your mint julep (or iced tea), saunter off the the patio, and open your laptop. Take care to put something in between your lap and the computer, by the way (a towel, perhaps), because the heat from the laptop can burn like the dickens. ...
