Anyone who has shopped online for a tabletop role-playing game in the past few years is probably aware that many games are now available in a PDF format. In fact, there are some games and supplements which are entirely PDF. This switch in focus has had its share of controversy, with some people preferring a…
I should note that this is mainly regarding prose book publishing. Comics and graphic novels have much more motor oil and livestock. (Hat tip: Cory Doctorow.)
As 2008 winds down, the future looms large and one of the murkiest predictions regards the future of newspapers. With people increasingly getting their news from the Internet, newspapers seem to serve readers with advertising circulars, classifieds and the comics. As various papers struggle with declining advertising revenue, they have shrunk newsrooms, dropped pages, reduced…
Tokyopop Associate Publisher Marco Pavia told ICv2, “Publishers and booksellers are describing this as one of the worst retailing environments in memory and I don’t know what to add. I think that’s an accurate assessment. We’re adjusting to this landscape that’s shifting every day. We need to be as responsive as we can to these…
Nase Yamato’s Cigarette Kisses, which had been acquired for America by Broccoli Books has found a new home at Aurora Publishing’s Deux Press yaoi imprint. The book is now scheduled for release in the second half of 2009. According to the company’s site, the title is about: Yusuke and Soji were close ever since junior…
UDON Entertainment, the Canadian-based creative studio, has announced a Manga for Kids Website setting the stage for the April release of Tomomi Mizuna’s The Big Adventures of Majoko and Shunshin Maeda’s Ninja Baseball Kyuma. ICv2 reports these are the first two volumes announced for the new line, to be followed in May by Mera Hakamada’s…
Book View Cafe is a new online publishing venture by a consortium of writers, many of whom are friends of ours here at ComicMix. According to their website, “Offerings range from novels to flash fiction and include both reprints and new work. Here on the Book View Cafe Blog, the authors talk about their work…
Once upon a time, these would have been faznines produced using Xerox machines or newfangled offset presses. But, today, Alter Ego, Back Issue, Write Now!, Draw! and the Jack Kirby Collector are all legitimate magaines from TwoMorrows. The company has expanded to include books such as their Modern Masters series along with their welcome Companion…
As recently announced, Blind Ferret Entertainment will be taking Tim Buckley’s self-published Ctrl+Alt+Del collections onto the mass market. The three self-published volumes are currently available through online retailer Split Reason. The new books are expected to be seen in bookstores, libraries, comic shops and other mass merchandise outlets worldwide. Volume one, tentatively re-titled This Is…
Del Rey Manga has partnered with Cartoon Network Enterprises to form a new Manga publishing imprint. The deal will debut original Manga based on two current Cartoon Network series, Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Ben 10 Alien Force (already in comic form via DC Comics). The first titles will feature color stills from Bakugan Battle Brawlers:…
Time Inc. is hoping to do for magazines what Netflix has done for movies and if successful, could open a new avenue for comic book readers. Maghound has opened up, allowing people to subscribe to tiers of magazines for reading. It has opened up a beta site with 240 titles from not only Time Inc….
Charles Kochman was recently named Executive Editor of Abrams ComicArts, a new imprint at Harry N. Abrams. The publisher rewarded Kochman with the promotion and imprint in recognition of his successful efforts to celebrate comic books and graphic storytelling with best-selling books. Kochman, a former book editor at DC Comics, joined Abrams several years back…
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