More titles getting a print release
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No, Sam has said they won't include them, and the already released print volumes don't.
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@jon-mitchell going off of Smartphone Physicals, no they won’t.
Which could change, Seven Seas edition of Arifureta, and Realist Hero have the bonus short stories
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Including things like the short stories could help with sales of physical books, but maybe they want to keep those for the website?
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Sounds weird, why would you take them hostage for the site when even SS prints have them. Maybe it's some unusual licensing terms or jp pubs were unhappy that SS included those...?
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I didn't want to make it sound like the stories are being held hostage or something like that. I just thought that maybe they wanted to keep them as incentives for people to make accounts on the jnovel club site? I remember that was one of the perks to making an account on this site. I'd love to see shorts get included in books in the future. But that could involve extra licensing costs to include them in books maybe?
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oh- I get why sometimes "bonus" contents are in premium ebooks via JNC only (or why they might sometimes be in print but not on kindle edition or whatever) . I imagine the short stories and whatnot may have a licence rider/addendum - restricted to something or another (or have an extra cost) and that this will vary based upon the original Japanese publishing house and T&C of the source materials
I'd like to see more
as an aside - I read a Manga recently that had a handful of end-notes- explaining a joke that might've slipped passed (specific cultural reference) or term, or a PUN in native language that was lost in translation- any chance of seeing that sort of thing as bonus content? (In print or ebook) translator notes/comments?
I read banned books
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They were mostly store-exclusive short stories in Japan, my understanding is that the licensing involved with putting them in print volumes in other stores is a lot more complicated than licensing them to do in a members-only premium epub.
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@jon-mitchell Some serie have translator or editor comment as bonus like kokoro connect, Ragnarok has a glossary on North mythologie, sometime there's also author interview (the far away paladin, last and first idole) and i think it was for Occulitic 9 that they have photo and the quick story of the visit of one of the novel location which really exist. But it seem that they make those type of bonus only when there's no picture or short stories available.
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I bought the second volume of how not to summon a demon lord and I'm very happy with it, my local store were sold out of volume 1 though so I'll have to buy it else where. Can't wait for more books to come out and looking forward to what else may get a physical release.
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More prints.
Elf Bride
Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718357001
Volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/171835701XAnimeta!
Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718358008I hope the Realist manga also gets a print run eventually.
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ELF BRIDE PRINT??!! :DD
Now can’t wait for Bakarina!
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any bets what series will be next?
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@theredjet
Paladin
Based on sales and time since first volume debut, I would say LDM and Spirit Chronicles are next. Since the sales for Bakarina are so good and an upcoming anime, Sam may decide to start printing that one pretty soon too. Potion Loli, based on Amazon reviews and sales, seems to be selling better than all of these, however. -
Looks like the Bookworm
manganovel is getting prints.
Vol.1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718356005
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@doublemangekyo said in More titles getting a print release:
Looks like the Bookworm manga is getting prints.
Vol.1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718356005
Vol.2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718356013It could also be the LN instead of the manga 🤔
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@terabyte said in More titles getting a print release:
It could also be the LN instead of the manga 🤔
Too soon for that. JNC's not even done with volume 1 of the LN. Pre-orders for volume 2, and paperbacks no less, don't make sense. Volume 1 of the manga is already translated.
Also, I think Sam said there would be a 6 month gap between ebooks and print.
Also also, each Part of Bookworm's adaptation is its own separate manga. Part 1 and Part 3 are being published simultaneously in Japan last I checked.
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@doublemangekyo said in More titles getting a print release:
@terabyte said in More titles getting a print release:
Also also, each Part of Bookworm's adaptation is its own separate manga. Part 1 and Part 3 are being published simultaneously in Japan last I checked. Makes sense why JNC is specifying it in the title, so it's probably the manga.I guess you haven’t seen Quof’s comment from yesterday:
@quof said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 1 Discussion!:In other news, I'm very aware of the "Part 1 : Vol 1" stuff and definitely, absolutely intend to keep the part titles in. They are important thematically and make discussing the series a lot easier since each "Part" cleanly delineates sections of the story, as you would expect. It's just kind of a hard naming structure to maintain when J-Novel distributes chapters and such in "parts" already. Bookworm Part 1 Volume 1 Part 1, right? I haven't thought of an ideal solution yet but hopefully the team and I can settle on something soon.
The light novel will follow the part x volume x format as well. It does seem way too early for the LN though, I agree.
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@legitpancake Yeah, I've got the Members Only forum on Ignored.
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The two Bookworm preorders on Amazon have been confirmed to be the light novels, not the manga! :D
