Japan's Manga Market Grows 0.4%

>>154727061
manga is dead

>>154727217
no.
manga is going digital.
the manga market actually grew.

Who cares

>>154727061
Interesting.

>>154727061
Do we look like businessmen to actually care about this shit?

>>154727327
>not having stocks in the japanese paper industry

>paying for digital manga

>millenial americans
>paying for anything

>>154727576
>>154727776
They make things easier for us.

>>154727217
The manga market hasn't grown for 10 years, anon, and you're saying a net increase in sales is bad? Fuck your bad vibes

Literally nobody cares.

>>154728312
at least 11 care enough to post

>paying for digital manga

I'm still pissed that they could not be bothered to release a print version of Kakegurui.

I might even be satisfied with a limited Print-on-demand run.

>>154728746
It's more convenient, cost effective and environmentally friendly.

I wonder: Is there another country that still produces a vast amount of entertainment print-media?

>>154727576
I do. Someone has to rip those scans.

>>154727776
Thank goodness there's more than just Americans in this world, then.

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>>154728786
it's something

>>154728772

>Weighing Energy costs of a book vs. ebook.
This sounds like a hard problem.

But books can probably achieve a pretty low lifetime cost. Unless you factor in transport costs.

But the required tech-level is way lower for books.

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Publishing the most books in ascending order (2016-04).
Spain, Japan, India, Germany, Russia, UK, US, China (most)

Image is 2005.

https://www.indy100.com/article/the-countries-that-read-the-most-books-7348401
http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/8-countries-that-produce-the-most-books-in-the-world-442990/?singlepage=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year

It seems the upper spots are counting re-editions too.

>>154728746
They actually will be doing that.

>>154729192
Releasing a print edition?

On that note: Couldn't they just have made Vol1 available for Preorder in English on Amazon (on an unspecified future date) and judge the response?

>>154727576

I'd throw money at my screen to have a website that has every single translated mango out there.

>>154729300
And uncensored. Don't forget that.

>>154727061
Does this includes h-doujins?

>>154729265
Yes, they recently announced they'll be printing it, thank the anime.

>>154730040
Ah. Yes the Anime.

(Anyone else pissed that they don't allow to buy ebook volumes on a preorder basis and get updates to the book directly as they translate chapters)

>>154729090
Not surprising considering China is the biggest market for all literature.

>>154730262
Note that amount of published books seems not to be in correlation with actual reading time (of various media).

>>154730311
That wiki list count only books published traditionally and not ones that use the digital format, which is popular in the East, especially in mobile format for reading when using the public transportation.

It also explain why for Japanese and Korean authors, its their number one foreign market