Shueisha is not letting international publishers license OPM until December, at least in Spain and France this happened.
I dont see why they would do a digital volume 1 this month and then put out the physical volume for it until 2015...Thats like a 10month delay of sorts. (also isnt viz technically a part of shueisha?)
I dont think the One Punch Man situation is the same as nisekoi so we probably cant compare their circumstances and use nisekoi as an example since the chps in english shonen jump didnt start at chp1 (started at 70something) and the digital volumes were essentially trying to quickly catch up, whereas One Punch Man started in the english shonen jump at chp 1.
The irony is, Bleach was originally known to have taken inspiration from YuYu Hakusho.
I think you can compare, they only got the physical rights way later with nisekoi.
Naruto from HxH as well.
In a sense it is, because if digital sells well, then they will do print. Smart business.
Digital only has marginal overhead. Server space and DB storage are a lot less expensive than the cost to print and distribute physical copies.
Pretty much. That isn't to say digital is that much cheaper though.
Sorry, what I'm about to say is boarder-line irrelevant in this thread, but the way you phrased that made me laugh *flashback to Yusuke/Sensui fight vs Ichigo/Ulquiorra fight*
Yeah we definitely can't start saying anybody is ripping off Bleach without cracking up lol
It goes way beyond that.
Viz wants to print big titles that might move at least (around) 2-5k printed units in sales. (Based on numbers from ICV2, that seems like a decent amount)
Both articles answer a different question, why publishers don't adopt a purely digital format, and why digital price point is the same as physical. Licensing and translation cost is the same for digital and physical formats. Digital reduces overheard considerably, eliminating the need to print physical copies, and ship them to stores. It also takes advantage of buying habits, with eReaders, phones, and tablets becoming the standard format for reading books. The manga industry is late to the game, and not fully equipped to take advantage of the digital market, but seem to be working on building viable platforms. Losing money is a fact of life in all businesses. No matter the industry, certain products are bound to fail. The point is to reduce losses incurred, when a product does fail. By initially posting manga exclusively in digital format, publishers can test the market for a new series, while also reducing overhead if a series fails. That is why Kodansha has been willing to post series, like Uchuu Kyoudai, to Crunchyroll that they have not licensed to print physical copies of. The publishing industry, in general, has not reached the point where they are willing to abandon physical copies. American manga publishers like to release exclusively digital versions of titles in order to gauge public interest.
Rather than post a poll, they can post digital copies of a manga, and see how many page views a manga gets. If a series gets enough views during it's trial period they release a physical copy. It's a better way of determining interest than a poll.
Of course not, because as of right now, Viz and Kodansha USA have both stated that print makes up the largest chunk of their profit.
It was announced that he will be working on the new series together with Kibayashi Shin and Yasaka Takanori. Ponjee will do the art, Kibayashi Shin will work on the story (under the Andou Yuma penname) and Yasaka Takanori will help with it's configuration (構成). It will be called 新宿D×D and serialized in Mangabox from February 27.Ponjee, a Taiwanese mangaka, published in Shonen Jump of 28/6/2010, a oneshot, Kiba & Kiba, written by Ichiro Inagaki.
And today, we learn that Ponjee will start this year a new series in a Japanese weekly magazine. We don't know yet what the magazine it is and what kind (seinen or shônen) will be.
