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NegativeZero
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I'd love to be able to get this but it looks to be US-only as usual.
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Megiddo
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I'm comparing the operating systems between the two. I figured that Apple doesn't use the word "laptop" just like they don't use "PC", despite their products being laptops and PCs respectively. Isn't what was up for debate? That this is a Windows world? Cause it is. EDIT: To clarify, if this was for the iPhone then I wouldn't bother with this discussion, but since the iPad is nothing more than a thin laptop that can't do hardly anything that the laptop can, I'll jump on any fanboy who thinks that the iPad sales are anything more than a blip on the radar in terms of general laptop sales. |
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jyuichi
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The use of the term notebook computer over laptop is not Apple only. xP Why are people so negative that some people (over 7 million if you add the two quarterly reports) can buy manga for their chosen device? Its not like Viz went iPad only. The hate really isn't needed. |
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Sakurazuka_Reika
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Viz Media (and any other publishing industry), do whatever you want but please don't ever stop publishing manga (and books in general) the traditional way.
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Dagon123
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Yea you dont have to move to Japan, download scanlations, and its not even from things viz doesn't have, if scanlators can get the latest chapter down in 24 hours for free, why can't the big holders like Viz? they stepped up now they gotta walk the walk. This isn't promoting them its simply saying, if Viz wants sales for there downloadable manga they need to be up to date with the japanese chapters, otherwise its no different then paper releases, which to me kinda defeats the purpose of all this hullabaloo about selling digital |
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Paploo
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Wow, and just a few days after announcing the digital Shonen Jump subscription supplement too. I guess VIZ is getting into digital on multiple fronts after dipping it's toes in with SigIkki and Sunday. This is an even bigger move, curious to see what they plan next
Great news! |
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bayoab
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einhorn303
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This is probably all DRMed files, so I could care less.
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Daimao Raki
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tasogarenootome
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This is great news! I don't own an iPad and am leaning towards a Kindle myself, but any foray into the digital realm is good news to me. Hope they sell well enough to sell on Kindle!
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jsc315
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This is a big step in the right direction! Viz for once actually doing something good. Lets just hope their releases are consistent. Also i need about $500 for a ipad
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mudduck454
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well I had a feeling this was what they were going to announce, I had hopeed that they were going to announce a complete boxset for cross game, but I guess that is too much to ask
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Scormio
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This sums up my reaction entirely. Personally, I'm not even a fan of online manga. I like reading it in book/magazine form, the way its supposed to be read. Ignoring my personal opinion, why the iPad? I live on a college campus. Do you know how many iPad's I've seen? 3 Do you know how many laptops? Inumerable. This really isn't that big of a deal considering the laptop to iPad ratio is probably ~1000:1. I was hoping this "Big news" was a large amount of new licenses or some big reprinting of a bunch of older series, but this feels like a letdown. |
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bahamut623
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Snore. The Shonen Jump news was more exciting. I guess this is a step in the right direction, but all of these book have been around for years.
Agreed. I'm all for digital if it helps the industry, but I simply have no interest in reading manga off of a screen.
Sunday's wish isn't an unreasonable one, though. It's already done with a lot of anime, and Viz themselves have already tried it with one manga (Rinne). People don't just turn to scans because they're free, but also because they're up to date, and in most cases, years ahead of the US release. If they want to combat scans, it makes plenty of sense for them to have concurrent releases online, at least for their most popular series. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that they haven't done so already. I predict with their online Jump and Bleach possibly leaving the magazine, they'll start posting the latest Bleach chapters online. |
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RedSwirl
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This only further convinces me to get an iPad. Finally manga publishers are starting to see where the future is! (there's already at least one really good scanlation app for iPad)
I know this is only a starting lineup, but I could still jump on this now just for Dragonball. I don't have too much space in my room for physical manga and I'm tired of reading manga on my computer screen. I just hope they eventually do at least catch up to be concurrent with US manga releases. |
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