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NEWS: Yen Press Publisher: 2020 Was Record Year for Company




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Covnam



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Good to see the US manga industry doing well overall
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:59 pm Reply with quote
Looking at my manga purchases from 2020 Yen Press was one of the top 2 I bought from. The other being Seven Seas. Had a few from Ghost Ship coming in at third. I imagine with people obviously having to spend more time at home there was an even bigger market for reading material.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 7:09 pm Reply with quote
Can't wait for everyone to finally get some reprints in, so many Yen series are going out of print right now (everyone is clamoring for more Higurashi)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:07 pm Reply with quote
zawa113 wrote:
Can't wait for everyone to finally get some reprints in, so many Yen series are going out of print right now (everyone is clamoring for more Higurashi)


Agreed. I was browsing the current Yen Press sale on RightStuf and was surprised at some of the relatively recent series that already had out-of-print volumes.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:48 pm Reply with quote
Looks at all the Yen Press LNs on my shelf.
Sounds about right.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:24 pm Reply with quote
I wonder if those sales include digital sales?But it is good to hear sales are that good for them.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 7:40 am Reply with quote
As great the news this concerns me that with profits like this, Kadokawa may simply buy out Yen press and assimilate it into the parent company, similar to what happened to vertical with Kodansha's recent restructuring.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:12 pm Reply with quote
macloud wrote:
As great the news this concerns me that with profits like this, Kadokawa may simply buy out Yen press and assimilate it into the parent company, similar to what happened to vertical with Kodansha's recent restructuring.

I would only be okay with that if Kadokawa would continue to allow other English publishers to license Kadokawa properties. Kado stuff as it is are already being bottlenecked as supposedly Yen gets priority licensing, but if they opt out of something, it seems to take forever if ever for it get licensed by the other English pubs. Making Yen the exclusive publisher for Kado would be detrimental as they can only license so much.
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TheMP



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:23 pm Reply with quote
Maybe Yen Press could start selling to Australia again instead of being a whiny brat, that would be nice.
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