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NEWS: Japanese, English Light Novels Posted Online




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Matt122004



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:50 am Reply with quote
Thank you ANN! THANK YOU!

To correct, some of the 11 stories will have illustrations, not all.

And the cover of the magazine is available on the blog: http://www.karuishosetsu.blogspot.com if anyone is interested.

-Matt Smile
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Akukaze



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:32 am Reply with quote
Visual Art's is the publisher for the Air, Clannad, and Kanon games with Key being the studio.
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Richard J.



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:43 pm Reply with quote
So will the English versions only be available online or will there be print versions available on demand or something?

This sounds like a very interesting development and I'm more than a little excited to see what they do.
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Kyogissun



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:50 pm Reply with quote
Akukaze wrote:
Visual Art's is the publisher for the Air, Clannad, and Kanon games with Key being the studio.


Hence why the releases are typically listed as Key/Visual Arts, right?

Visual Arts going out and offering something like this is awesome. That crappy e-manga service is just too selective and offers crap I've never heard of, I hope maybe we'll see a nice number of light novels...

Maybe the Little Busters! light novel will be one of the eleven? =/
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Matt122004



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:51 pm Reply with quote
It will be online in a PDF file, you can print it obviously if you want a printed version.

-Matt
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Richard J.



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:06 pm Reply with quote
Matt122004 wrote:
It will be online in a PDF file, you can print it obviously if you want a printed version.

-Matt
My question was more about professionally bound, high-quality printing like a real novel. I have neither the equipment nor the money to get the equipment to produce the same quality product at home.
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Matt122004



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:52 pm Reply with quote
Neither do I. This is a free project, and everyone working on it is doing so for free of their own time.

Unless some big publisher likes Del Rey sees the magazine and see's pottential profit, you won't see a high quality printed version.

But maybe Del Rey will, they already are planning on a translated light novel magazine to come out next year. Maybe we can prove to them that ENGLISH light novels can be good too.

-Matt Smile

PS. Check the blog often for updates.
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DPX



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:14 pm Reply with quote
I'm having a problem. This is the offical link to the site, if i'm not mistaken.

http://www.ksm.lightnovel.org/

and this is what I get...

Quote:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:
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What you can try:
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So, if the problem with the site, ot with me. I really would like to check this out, but I can't get to the damn site Sad
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