Will western publishers finally wake up to online reading now Amazon and Apple are in the webtoon game?
Imagine if an old School publishing CEO had been in charge of Apple. The iPod, iPhone and iPad...
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Category: Japan
Japan Book Publishers Association demands copyright law review in light of AI developments
The group stressed the need to clarify the interpretation of, and decide whether copyright law...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Japan shows world’s publishers how to deal with IP pirates: Lock ‘em up!
Copyright theft is theft, pure and simple, but exaggerating the losses and exaggerating the threat...
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Arabic folk tales get a second Manga outing. Jinn about to launch in 190 countries. As Arab storytelling goes global, when will publishers catch up with digital video?
Manga has long since moved away from its homelands in the Far East, and we in the west tend to...
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Over 5 million visitors spend over $5 million at India's 2019 book fairs. And we're only halfway through February
India’s Kolkata International Book Fair wound up earlier this week and the numbers are in:...
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Start The Day Global – 5 Not to be Missed Publishing Stories from Around the World
A writers workshop in Abu Dhabi that went from 12 to 2,500 members. A pay-to-get-in bookstore in...
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