Forum - View topicDigital Manga launching Digital Manga Guild
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Paploo
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It's a big day in digital manga it seems.
http://www.digitalmangaguild.com/ And unlike Shuho Sato, they're willing to pay you for the time, giving you a cut of the profits from the translations http://twitter.com/allaboutmanga/status/29144619529 news via allaboutmanga's twitter feed. By the sounds of things it won't just be english manga- it'll be multiple languages, something that will give them an advantage over pirate sites, which tend to be one language. This is a pretty interesting move. With 6 publishers apparently signed up, there's lots of content that'll likely be available., and I'm guessing it'll be mroe diverse than Emanga's content. http://allaboutcomics.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/dmp-opens-digital-manga-guild/ More details at Daniela's website. |
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Genet
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I can't believe this isn't getting discussed more. It raises many questions about quality control and pay and things like that.
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Paploo
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http://manga.about.com/od/mangaeditorsinterviews/a/Interview-Hikaru-Sasahara-Of-Digital-Manga-Publishing.htm
Details are still being worked out, but he did put up a video on their site and do an interview with Deb Aoki about this stuff. Read the interview for full details- in the 2nd page, Sasahara lays out details, and explains that basically, translators have to audition for the site and meet DMP+their partners requirements. I assume there will be some kind of editorial management involved with the site due to this. As for payment, basically, everyone's sharing the risk- DMP, the japanese publisher, the artists, and the translators all only get paid when people actually buy the manga. There will be software that allows all parties to track the sales, and they will all get a percentage of the sales. It sounds to have been wellrecieved at the con where he unvieled his plans- I imagine the fact that DMP's audience skews older [they mostly publish yaoi manga with a history of seinen manga as well] will play a part in them being able to get audiences to check out a pay system [which they've been doing with emanga.com]. They're working with smaller publishers on niche titles, so they are flexible in that sense |
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PingSoni
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This is quite interesting. Clearly someone needs to do some major outside-the-box thinking in a global context about manga publishing, and this sounds like a good start.
I have publishing, editing and project managing experience, so I'm curious about the aspect they aren't saying much about: how does one coordinate an operation of this scale, ensure quality and keep their partners happy, without introducing a prohibitive amount of overhead? (And can they slip in a few yuri titles? I'd edit Aoi Hana just for the sheer fun of it!) |
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Paploo
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I think that's the "everyone involved only gets paid after people buy stuff" part. DMP's probably investing a little in building/operating the site, but otherwise, no one's getting paid until something sells.
The "ensure quality" part comes from them having translation teams submit themselves for review- it's not a youtube style "anyone can post whatever" site. It's being managed editorially in some aspects- there's a certain range of content they'll have available, and people will have to submit themselves for review to get onto the site, and get approved to work on a given series. By the sounds of things, they have a small range of pubs who have expressed interest in publishing with them, so I imagine it'll be more niche and lessknown material, though it does sound like they have potentially more than just the Yaoi/Josei-fare seen on their existing emanga site. I'd suggest e-mailing Fantagraphics about getting Aoi Hana here- they're publishing her other series in hardcover format at the moment, with Matt Thorn [a friend of the author's] handling the translation/editing. I imagine if that does well, they might look into publishing her other works. |
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PingSoni
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I've already preordered the first two volumes of Wandering Son from Fantagraphics, because I want to support that. Aoi Hana is published in France as Fleurs bleues, which works for me, but I'd like to see more yuri available in North America.
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Genet
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Was Wandering Son postponed again? Earlier it was being solicited on Amazon for January/Feb 2011, now it's saying March 2011. Was this maybe just an error on Amazon's part? I remember Fantagraphics originally scheduling it to be released this December, but that's not happening... |
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