Forum - View topicPR: Digital Manga Guild Acquires First 487 Titles
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Kougeru
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wow..thats a lot of titles
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Megiddo
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487 titles and the only seinen ones I see are the already extremely-well-known Berserk, Hellsing, and Trigun (along with the Vampire Hunter D light novels). Though there are like 400 BL/yaoi titles.
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Ryujin99
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My guess is that the reason they have a faily limited selection right now is because a lot of larger companies are probably pretty skeptical of it. I'll have to keep a watch on this to see how it turns out. It'd be great if they got a pretty good selection in the future.
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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Where's the list of titles, I was unable to find it anywhere... |
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Genet
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Where'd you see this list? >> |
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oriana3k
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Megiddo's probably referring to the titles DMP already has listed in the encyclopedia. The new titles probably aren't listed anywhere for us to see yet. Last edited by oriana3k on Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:21 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Megiddo
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I clicked the "books" link on their site. I highly doubt these are physical releases (particularly with a name like Digital Manga Guild), so I figured they were just taking stuff that has already been released but put it in e-book format (whichever one they decided to use). |
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Covnam
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Considering that Dark Horse publishes those titles, I doubt that they are a part of it. It'd be nice if they gave a list, but I'm guessing some legal things are still being worked on or that we are only going to see titles as they are actually released.
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Megiddo
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Ah, so Dark Horse does their own e-booking then? My bad. Kind of strange that Berserk, Hellsing, and Trigun would be listed on that site then... as far as I know those are all Dark Horse titles.
EDIT: Well, it looks like it's coming soon, and this only solidifies my reasoning above. Last edited by Megiddo on Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:22 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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agila61
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Its to release material that could not normally get a printed release by the original rights own, translator, editor, layout, and the publisher (DMP) all working on a revenue share basis from the revenue on the digital distribution. From what they said in those early announcements, the initial focus will indeed be BL/yaoi (which makes sense, given DMP's existing catalogue), but the information in the article here is exactly what it now says at their site ~ yaoi, shojo, josei and seinen titles. Their "books" listing seems highly unlikely to include the ones in this announcement, since this is a licensing announcement, and so the ebooks won't be done yet. The "books" listing is the current ebook offering of DMI. |
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Moomintroll
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They're actually co-licensed and co-published by Dark Horse and DMP - they have the logos of both companies on their spines - but, yeah, they aren't anything to do with this Digital Manga Guild initiative (and nor are any other titles that have already had a physical release). |
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ZepysGirl
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No, that is entirely wrong. The books listed on their site are not part of the 487 titles they just acquired. Since the Digital Manga Guild has not truly started production yet, no one even knows which titles those 487 are. |
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