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NEWS: Manga Aggregator to Close as OpenManga Plans Launch

OpenManga NEEDS a big series otherwise it will flounder like Manganovel did. The reason Crunchyroll is doing well with their new business model is because they landed Naruto.

The fact that the companies VIZ/Shueisha (and possibly other publishers) laughed in their faces makes me worried for the future of such a promising platform. Their announcement is difficult to decypher but it sounds like all OpenManga will provide are the works of up and coming no-name amateur / indy mangakas.

Sounds like a gamble to me, will be interesting to see if it works or not.

This sounds soooooo shady. Especially considering how Japanese publishers tend to be with their stuff, I doubt they're going to get any well known mangaka on this site. If anything, they're gonna have amateur mangaka or ones that are otherwise not that well established, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I don't know if that will make for a successful site. But who knows. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this, but for now it just seems like something's a bit off.

ANd this advances my legality reading Seto No Hanayome how, exactly?

They don't need a big-name mangaka for it to work, they just need one of those 70 artists to come up with the next big thing.

Also this can backfire with the nature of manga itself. 1 chapter a month, that's crazy!, but I will wait, will you?

These don't have to be independent mangaka. From what I understand, most mangaka retain ownership rights, and only grant print rights to publishers.

1 is gone, 29 to go !!

silver_deeds wrote:

They don't need a big-name mangaka for it to work, they just need one of those 70 artists to come up with the next big thing.

I like the idea, but if the next big hit came from them, I think the artist is gonna run to sign a contract with a big publisher (and I don't blame him)

These don't have to be independent mangaka. From what I understand, most mangaka retain ownership rights, and only grant print rights to publishers. If they haven't given their e-print rights away, then they may grant them to whomever they wish.

People have always talked about a manga version of Crunchyroll to stop scans. Let's hope it works.

In the wake of that document being spread, representatives from MangaHelpers were able to set up and meet with executives from some of the largest publishing houses in the industry. We were allowed the opportunity to present the idea that publishers and fans, artists and their consumers could work together in what would be a 2.5 hour meeting. Ultimately, there were too many walls and too many preconceptions to overcome for that plan to work. In the end we were, jokingly, told that if we wanted something like this to exist, we would have to publish our own magazines and series and go from there.