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The Mad Manga Massacre
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Yes!!!!
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MrXarnus
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I hope that one of their other project's is Print-On-Demand.
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1867 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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I suspect JManga doesn't have print rights, and besides, POD isn't very cost-effective per copy compared to offset printing. |
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PockyCrusader
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Awesome. I'd totally sign up for JManga if I weren't tethered to my computer.
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Megiddo
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They need to work on a pricing structure where a monthly subscription doesn't limit you to read two volumes per month.
Seriously, I'm not sure how anyone can support that structure. $10 means 1000 points, and since volumes cost 500 points.... yeah. |
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MrXarnus
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I sended them an e-mail asking if there are plans for POD, and they said they were working on it, which means they do have print rights. |
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Beatdigga
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Point systems tend to be way more hassle than they're worth. Still, $5 for a volume, with the usual print cost $8, I mean, I get it. Kinda. |
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agila61
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That implies some form of rental rather than permanent access system, since less than $5 for a digital tankoboun is not going to fly. My preference would be for weekly rental of the chapters in a volume to add up to 1/4 of the volume purchase price. IOW, rent by chapter, buy by volume. That would be allow reading 10 to 20 weekly chapters, and still buying one volume per month. |
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Ryan227
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Good! I really don't like reading manga on my computer if I can help it, I'd much rather have it on my ipad because some how I find digital books more acceptable to me that way.
I subscribed a while ago and then I was disappointed when I saw how slowly they update some series though, volume one of the series I subscribed to read was put up last summer and they still haven't put up the second one 
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dragon695
 Posts: 1377 Location: Clemson, SC |
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Instead of an app, just make it a pdf ffs!
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Beatdigga
Posts: 4658 Location: New York |
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But those are easily stolen and distributed. |
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Polycell
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Hopefully I can use this on my rooted Nook.
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agila61
Posts: 3213 Location: NE Ohio |
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The Japanese publishers have made themselves comfortable with apps to sell digital manga to cellphones, so an app is almost certainly the path of least resistance for JManga ~ the biggest challenge in these things often being getting permission, rather than any technical challenge.
Which Nook and rooted how? A rooted stock Nook Tablet is an Android 2.3 device. Since the Kindle Fire is an Android 2.3 device, I'd think that would be a dead lock cinch. A rooted CM7 kernel Nook Tablet and Nook Color is also 2.3, so that would likely also be OK, unless JManga uncovers a previously undiscovered glitch in the CM7 kernel. A rooted stock Nook Color is an Android 2.2 device. A rooted stock Nook Simple Touch is an Android 2.1 device. Pinch to zoom is added in Android 2.1, so if they are aiming at a universal Android app first, and then a "tablet" app later, Android 2.1 and above for the universal app would not be surprising. If they have both pinch to zoom and some form of single tap UI (say, zoom + and - with a lock zoom setting), they could design a universal Android app on a 1.6 baseline, and support pinch to zoom if the API level is 5 (Android 2.0) or higher. Either would leave you OK, whether you have a rooted Nook Simple Touch, rooted Nook Color, or rooted Nook Tablet. If they go for a Android 2.3 baseline, that drops off a rooted Nook Simple Touch and a rooted stock Nook Color. |
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