Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" short story book

arghc

@legitpancake said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:

@arghc Rarely if ever is the author involved in business deals, unless JNC were licensing directly the WN. But yes, spin-offs, short stories, fanbooks, etc are all not included in the main license. They all require a new contract with the JP publisher.

It's a question, I guess, of if it's "the JP publisher" or "the JP publishers". After all, based on my understanding of how rights work: translation rights, movie/tv adaptation rights, toy rights, etc. can all be separate depending on the contracts you sign, so Kazuki-san could have retained translation rights, especially after starting to do business with JNC she could just have retained translation rights of subsequent stories and spin off works to simplify matters... Sorry, pointless idle speculation (but that's what the forums are for! 8-)

hiroto

@arghc

She explicitly said that translation can be only negotiated between foreign publishing companies and TO Books. She does not want to waste time on such matters.

Tube

Nice!

I made this thread a year ago. Soon?

b.scot.morgan

@tube said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:

@LurkingMcLurk pointed out that the one released after 4.4 and the one released after 4.8 might have to be treated separately. I hope that JNC will license both but I edited this thread to be about the one released after 4.4.

I saw an announcement today of what I think (assuming I understood the MTL of the press release correctly) is a third collection of short stories coming out next spring. So that would be released after 5.7 or 5.8, I think? One more to keep track of/distinguish from the others (and to request in due time).

Tube

@b-scot-morgan At least after Royal Academy Stories: The First Year, the names are going to be Short Story Collection 1 and Short Story Collection 2, so it won't be confusing.

arghc

@b-scot-morgan said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:

a third collection of short stories coming out next spring. So that would be released after 5.7 or 5.8, I think? One more to keep track of/distinguish from the others (and to request in due time).

I see no reason not to request it now. 8-) They can translate them in due time, being only human and all. ;-) Still, I don't really see why they need us to clamour for them since I'd think it's completely obvious what we want. But if they need clamouring, here it is! 8-)

shadowkiller018

Has there been any new info on whether the short stories will be translated now that the publishing of Volume 4 part 4 is almost happening?

I would love to read these!

Rahul Balaggan

@shadowkiller018

Hello,

Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.

Thank you

alfonso_rd_36

@rahul-balaggan said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:

@shadowkiller018

Hello,

Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.

Thank you

Come on! Can't you even give USA hint?

(I'm joking of course)

solarmist

@rahul-balaggan when (realistically, it's all but confirmed J-novel would try and most likely succeed) J-novel does license these volumes, when is the soonest in that process there would be a public announcement? I assume we would hear something before @Quof got told, “Ok, put those SS collections next in your queue.” Am I wrong?

Rahul Balaggan

@solarmist

Hello,

Sorry, I fully understand what your question is, but my answer will not change from what you replied to:

Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.

Thank you

solarmist

@rahul-balaggan um. Not quite what I meant (I mean yes I would love to know anything more there too). I'm not even talking about Bookworm. I'm legit confused about where and when official (not unofficial) announcements are made. I looked at the news thread, but I don't see a single title license announcement.

Is the calendar the official way to find out a new title has been announced or is there a blog post somewhere listing these things somewhere I don't know about?

I see in the about us page it mentions licenses being announced on twitter, but is that and the Q&As really the only official source?

myskaros

@solarmist Our previous licensing announcement was in November:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5062/j-novel-club-at-animenyc-2021

solarmist

@myskaros ah. Ok. Thank you.

I don't normally read the forums, exception the Bookworm pre-pub discussions, but I am interested in seeing the lists of titles that you have successfully acquired. I will keep an eye on that going forward.

I would like to suggest you also make those posts to the J-novel blog, so they are discoverable by search engines.

Edit: I just looked and the actual list was on ANN. I would double down on my suggestion in that case. It is very strange to me J-novel club doesn't maintain official blog posts of it's own licensing announcements.

LurkingMcLurk