How do you feel about English light novel publishers
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@zing That is an option I hadn't looked into. Aside from having another ebook reader on my phone I don't find any drawbacks on bookwalker. Thanks for the suggestion.
I just wonder what problem does YP have on listing its catalog on Amazon or Play store in India.
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Going by that recent ANN interview I might have jumped the gun on this topic when I included Square Enix considering right now they only plan on releasing one novel and the rest of their library is manga. Oh well I only included them as a joke anyways.
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J-Novel Club is awesome and great, especially with the slew of new licences in this past year. (That I'm commenting as such on the JNC forums is probably a sign of how much I like them.) I don't read all of their releases, but that's just because the variety of genres is wide enough that I simply prefer some over others. Which means people with different tastes can read those other genres. The primary criticism is that the reader app is tremendously buggy; not yet to the point of literal unusability, but more incredibly annoying quirks like having to log in and out several times just to get my login token to stick. (Which is probably more annoying due to my using a random password from Lastpass, so I have to re-authenticate to Lastpass every time.)
Yen Press is on my semi-serious shitlist for region-locking a lot of their digital releases. Semi-serious in that I assume it's part of their contracts that they feel it's not worth renegotiating, but it doesn't solve the issue that I don't want to make room for physical copies of books and pay for shipping.
Seven Seas also has some issues on the regional licencing front, but now that I think about it I can't actually name any examples, so I might need to come back and review my opinions of them. A few odder translation choices for particularly Japanese/anime-culture terms, but I can tell that the translators tried their best in the circumstances available.
The best I can say about Sol Press is that they're "getting better", in that their more recent releases are at least more proofread and less error-filled than their earlier ones. It's not good yet, but at least I can see a trend of improvement, so I hope they continue it, preferably with a quicker pace.
Cross Infinite World caters to a very niche set of genres, but they're decent enough in it, and I appreciate that someone is bringing it over to English. Apparently they directly contact authors of webnovels, so the Cross Infinite World releases are the first time these stories have gotten an official "print" (whether physical or digital). One weird part is that whoever writes the blurbs makes the stories sound a lot more dramatic and dark than they really are, so often I don't know if a given story is really that dark and depressing, or if it's just the blurb writer going overboard again.
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@rasray said in How do you feel about English light novel publishers:
@legitpancake Thanks for the info, I just checked them but they are way too overpriced at $14 for each book.
Just an idea, but you could buy half of the volumes that you're reading by ... other means ... to support the author and publishers. That would only cost $7.
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@rasray said in How do you feel about English light novel publishers:
@zing That is an option I hadn't looked into. Aside from having another ebook reader on my phone I don't find any drawbacks on bookwalker. Thanks for the suggestion.
I just wonder what problem does YP have on listing its catalog on Amazon or Play store in India.
I went for a samsung galaxy pad instead of kindle because I could not find most of the novels I want to read in digital form. YP is especially notorious for having dead links to digital releases. Had 0 issues with bookwalker so far aside from the app not keeping my phone from dimming the screen. But that can be fixed by extending the timer in phones settings.
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@harmlessdave I just faked my location as US on Kobo with a random real address, problem solved. (No need for a proxy or US card)
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Does Seven Seas have a page that shows which Light Novels they have licensed? When I visit their series page it seems like they put all of their manga and light novel series onto the same page which makes it confusing.
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