Noone from JNC is going to Acen since they never responded to emails after we applied for a panel, even the ones we sent asking to cancel the panel.

We are going to anime Boston instead!
(Specifically myself Sam and Kristi, Managing Translator)

Sam P.

If I recall correctly (it's been a while since I've last tried to read JP Bookworm), the brackets are a direct translation of a alternate/bold quotation mark.

Japanese quotation marks look like this: 「」
However, there's a second form of quotation marks: 『』

So (with only the words translated) it'd read: 「I want to order a 『stylus』」

English also has two kinds of quotation marks (single and double quotes) and single quotes are sometimes used for quotations-within-quotations, but the single quotes don't stand out nearly as much as those bolded quotes.

I'm not a frequent reader of untranslated Japanese books, so I don't know if there's a common usage of those alternate quotation marks (I've only seen them in Bookworm, but that isn't saying much), but their usage in Bookworm is as others have described: Myne is not speaking the language of the world she's in.

Interesting, I notice that once other people in the world start using the words, the extra quotation marks (and the brackets by extension) disappear; I guess as a way of representing that they've now become part of the world's language.

@tomorr0w
The 'new' tag would seem more of a timed event thing; an item counts as 'new' for a specified amount of time after first being released as a complete volume.
Ya can't make it go away, but after x amount of time passes it'll vanish on its own.

OK, who is Iris Tankoubon?

I'll just add that j-novel probably doesn't have any say in how long the volumes they receive from the Japanese publishers are. Thus, the average length of each part will be determined by how many parts each volume is split into (usually 8 or 10, sometimes 12 or even 14, probably depending on things like volume length and popularity of the series, and the schedules of the translators/editors), which is something you can check on the series page. If parts getting shorter is a general trend, that either means that volumes getting shorter is a general trend in the Japanese market (which I doubt), or volumes are getting split into a greater number of parts. The latter would be easy enough to verify by, as mentioned, checking the series pages.

Not sure if its an efficient way or not, but I pay one Month of Premium membership, buy a certain amount of credits (usually budget vs # of books I am interested in reading). Then wait for the Premium to expire and remain either non-member, or enter as a regular when new volumes come out.

Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no cyber Monday deal this year at J-Novel Club.

Please see the following comment for more information.

Just to confirm, no credit sale for cyber Monday this year for various reasons, some you might be able to guess?

We will have sales in the future though! Promise.

https://forums.j-novel.club/post/167175

@myskaros I’m on the latest version (iOS 15). Are you too?

@myskaros sorry this was my first time asking a question I wasn't sure where you would see it so i doubled posted Sorry

@cooper-cummings-gk5u8qq That’s clever. I didn’t know that. Thank you

@saffire said in J-Novel Recent lack of ecchi or harem series:

@mlindner said in J-Novel Recent lack of ecchi or harem series:

So again, don't use Amazon as a benchmark.

Amazon accounts for the majority of JNC's sales, factoring it into discussions of whether JNC will license something is a no-brainer. If it can't stay up on Amazon, they're almost certainly less likely to license it because it will directly translate into fewer sales. I could not say for certain that JNC is definitely avoiding lewder titles because of it but I wouldn't be surprised.

This.

Whatever anyone may want to believe, the reality is that an outlet making up the majority of sales is going to have a controlling interest in what gets sold. And what's licensed is controlled by what sells; a publisher can't afford to lose money on too many series, or it goes out of business.

Like it or not - and I don't - Amazon owns a controlling share of the book market. If JNC wants to survive as a publisher, it has to take 'Can it be sold on Amazon?' into account.

@terabyte said in Updated E-Books:

A changelog seems pointless honestly. You'd only get a "Fixed typos" 99% of the times most likely.

This is still useful info.

And when they update more importante things (like color illustrations, renaming things, missing premium content, etc.) they do usually post in the volume's discussion topic.

Like app updates, sure most of them just say “bug fixes”, some developers actually say what bugs are being fixed.

I've had this happen a couple of times.
Each time, when I clicked on 'User' it'd show me as logged in...but wouldn't display my library as an automatic thing.
If I flushed my cache it would then show that, no, really, I wasn't logged in after all.

@exedore brilliant, thank you. I like the fictional name.

@destruxio I completely agree I'm still vary much enjoying all the books to read and have been loving having some series on catch-up as I've been able to get into more books that I didn't want to buy the first book just to figure out if I would like it or not.

@lokison Hey there! I don't believe there is a dedicated discussion about titles members would like to see in print, so you're free to start one if you wish! J-Novel Club doesn't comment on whether a given series is under consideration for print, though. Sam has said publicly that the ebook sales necessary to justify print is 2000 per volume, though.

@korppi Interestingly, the Yen Press website still links to both Kobo and Amazon to purchase digital versions of No Game No Life. I got interested in checking it because the Carbon Sequestering Edition of V9 has been on back order at RightStuf for months.