Re: Weekly Shounen Jump [2009] - Discussion & TOC Talk v.2
Early Magazines F.A.Q.
Who are the people who post spoilers at 2ch?
First of all they are japanese.
They live in Japan and most of them are normal people.
By normal, i mean Junior highschooler, university students, salary men etc
Are they Jump insiders?
No, would you do that if you were one? Risking to be fired for that? I guess no.
But, from time a time, some of them post "spoilers" concerning Toc's (Rankings, New Series ...) before anyone can get the jump.
But i still can't clearly define "ko-neta" (named like that by Finestela)
He provides information on sundays but he seems not to have the jump in his hands (i can prove it but it would too long), some hints can be found
Here
How come they can get the jump one week before the release date, for some of them?
They get their copy earlier than they should.
Most of the industries in japan work in "just-in-time distribution" which mean that they immediatly ship merchandises after they were produced, to not pay stock taxes.
So they ship the fixes fastly that's how bookstores etc get them on monday/tuesday etc ( i don't how they manage the priority between stores) and are supposed to sell them only the next monday.
But some of them don't respect that and sell them to people they trust.
See here how one of them had problems by doing so in
this article (Japanese)
But How american/chinese (taiwanese) and citizens of others countries get them early too (on friday)?
Because magazines are sent to foreighn stores at the same time it's sent to japanese's but they have shipping delay.
Added to the first post.
