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NEWS: 'YOU' Magazine Series' Fates Revealed




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SHD



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:51 am Reply with quote
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Shueisha announced in May that it planned to end the magazine because it was "unable to stop the continued decline in manga magazine readership as female readers shift towards compiled book volumes and digital copies." Shueisha will instead expand its efforts toward digital manga, and will focus on its Cocohana magazine, as well as You Magazine's sister magazine officeYOU.

See, this is someone who gets it, and is taking steps to find solutions instead of just screaming about piracy and fighting tooth and nail to avoid having to get on with the times.

Even the blind can see that the current print manga magazine publishing model is unsustainable for all but the largest, most popular mags (and even those have been steadily losing readership for a good while now) or those who have managed to carve out a niche for themselves with no competition. I hope that eventually more publishers will accept the situation, accept digital as print's equal (or more!) and think of new strategies to use it that are affordable and fair, instead of trying to cling to the old ways and expect them to work even as they obviously don't.
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saturnfireflie



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:52 am Reply with quote
Hmmm. Yet there is something incredibly magical about owning a physical copy...
I will be sad for the day there are no more printed books
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SHD



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:35 am Reply with quote
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Hmmm. Yet there is something incredibly magical about owning a physical copy...
I will be sad for the day there are no more printed books

I don't see what's magical about these... these are magazines that you buy, read like 35-70 pages of them (more if you're lucky but most people don't follow every manga in every magazine), collect whatever pointless doodad they included as a "please buy me, please!" present, and then throw them out because it's not like there's anything else to them that would warrant keeping them around, unless you're an obsessive collector and have a huge storage space where you can keep them. And you'll buy the manga you buy these magazines for again when the collected chapters are released, so you're pretty much paying twice for the same series...
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manapear



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:53 am Reply with quote
Sad to see You mostly go, but I'm glad some things will live on in other magazines, or online. Some companies have made the shift so well, but others. . . really don't want to, lol.

I do love getting cool furoku out of magazines, but plenty of magazines still give crap furoku, or in some cases, it doesn't justify having the clutter.

It's going to be interesting to see if other publishers get this smart.
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