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NEWS: Yen Press to End Yen Plus Digital Magazine in Current Format




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Utsuro no Hako



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:46 am Reply with quote
So who wants to bet Crunchyroll's going to announce they're simulpubbing a bunch of Yen titles at the end of the month?
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Mr Adventure



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:49 am Reply with quote
I just wish they published some titles I liked. I remeber when they launched their print mag and I was super stoked about being on the ground floor of a manga anthology. But none of the content appealed to me.
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malvarez1



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:55 am Reply with quote
Well, the good news is that now the manga volumes might come out faster, like what happened with Viz Media.
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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:38 am Reply with quote
Don't see how there can be any good news in this. I seriously doubt any of their manga is going to be coming out any faster.

If they couldn't even support a digital only format, they must have been doing something wrong. Could be the titles they picked or even their own expectations.
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azabaro
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:26 pm Reply with quote
I don't know if they couldn't support it, or just saw an opportunity to redesign things to work better. I mean, they tried going all digital in July 2010 when the iPad (and thus modern tablets) were all of 3 months old - their digital anthology magazine was a slightly clumsy web-only affair, and IIRC you had to pay for it via Paypal - no other payment options were available. Compare that to signing up for and reading Shonen Jump through the Viz app on your iPad or other modern tablet - the latter is a much better experience.
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Catseyetiger



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:24 pm Reply with quote
This news is just a little scary for the Magazine online formats. I mean they had next to nothing in publishing costs and still could not exist despite the lowered costs of operating?

One would wonder how this will play out for future digital ventures or did someone just sell and retire?
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