Forum - View topicNEWS: Webtoon, IDW Launch Sonic the Hedgehog, Locke & Key Comics Reformatted as Webtoons
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mdo7
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OK, so IDW is completely all in on the Webtoon app. Just to remind everybody, if you have a Hoopla account (and Hoopla does have smartphone apps) assuming you have a library card, and your local libraries network is part of Hoopla, you can read your manga, graphic novels even including titles from IDW on there.
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MFrontier
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I guess that's one way to get more of an audience.
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Beatdigga
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IDW has lost millions the last two years. This is showing nothing is off the table to keep the company going.
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mdo7
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Yeah, I've been looking around and this is really unfortunate for them. My question is: Why haven't they joined on the manga licensing and publishing game (a.k.a open up a manga publishing studio/division) since other comic/graphic novel publishers like Titan Comic, and Alien Book are jumping into the game? I mean IDW did publish one manga back in 2007, and they never did it since then. I mean manga can make more money for IDW then publishing comic book/graphic novels based on licensed properties like Godzilla, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. If IDW can open up a manga publishing division and license a well-known but not license by other big company titles and probably indie manga titles, that might help them I don't know by how much but it's been widely acknowledged that manga outsell comic/graphic novels in the US. So it would make sense for a publisher like IDW to open up a manga publishing division. |
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ZamirColtren
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That twist was unexpected!
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