J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker
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@myskaros There was no mention of DRM: Will this be introduced? Asking because this is a 100% deal breaker for me and the major reason I'm buying from JNC.
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Read the FAQ. Second the concern that nothing mentions DRM but the fact that JNC keeps its own platform makes me hopeful I can still buy here.
More licenses would be a definite benefit. I've been happy with JNC's translation quality and VERY happy with the speed, so hopefully this will just be same-but-better.
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@anpan One would hope the "Premium epubs, credits, and other features will remain the same" would include that, but explicitly stating it would be nice.
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@taedirk Exactly why I was asking. I've had plenty of terrible experiences with acquisitions, so I like seeing explicit statements.
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@anpan We have no intention of adding any DRM to our premium epubs, nor discontinuing premium epub service. But as usual I try not to crow too loudly about it...
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@sam-pinansky said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:
But as usual I try not to crow too loudly about it...
When one of the alternative marketplaces' stance is "you can only read in our app, no sideloading onto any e-ink devices", you should totally crow loudly about it.
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@taedirk I think the idea is if it gets "too loud" then someone might come and start cracking down on it.
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Glad to see that everything that made JNC great will stay the same.
Also, I know it's probably included in the "nothing is going to change" but just to be sure will that deal have any impact on the printed version for the 3 series where it's handled by Seven Seas?Do you like death, war and misery ?
Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
Do you like vengeance story?
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Ok. Where did I miss the Q&A link.
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The 2nd post in this topic, https://forums.j-novel.club/post/129829
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
J-Novel Club, Future Volume Release Schedule
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@raitoiro Unless I hear from Seven Seas they aren't interested in printing them anymore, but I think they will be happy with continuing the sublicense for the ongoing series.
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Well, congrats to the successful establishment of the partnership and
Question: Is Sam ever going to finish "My Little Sister Can Read Kanji" volume 5?
Answer: I did! It's out! Go buy the e-book already
good to know that you still know what your readership really caresabout ;-)
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To be honest I was rather worried there. Kadokawa only acquiring a majority and not all of JNC helps ease those worries a little and puts some weight behind the words that nothing will change. At least I feel that not selling all of JNC (immediately?) will slow down any bigger changes considerably.
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@tube said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:
To be honest I was rather worried there. Kadokawa only acquiring a majority and not all of JNC helps ease those worries a little and puts some weight behind the words that nothing will change. At least I feel that not selling all of JNC (immediately?) will slow down any bigger changes considerably.
Weird. Kadokawa side annoucement says they acquired JNC and say nothing of "majority stake".
Even the title of annoucement is quite different that JNC annoucement says "Partnership", Kadokawa one is "Aquisition".
https://ir.kadokawa.co.jp/global/news_release/20210428_u2iza_en.pdf
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@hiroto Yeah it seems there's a difference. Per OP of this thread:
A majority stake in J-Novel Club has recently been acquired by Kadokawa.
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@tube said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:
@hiroto Yeah it seems there's a difference. Per OP of this thread:
A majority stake in J-Novel Club has recently been acquired by Kadokawa.
Maybe it is 100% majority.
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@hiroto said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:
@tube said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:
@hiroto Yeah it seems there's a difference. Per OP of this thread:
A majority stake in J-Novel Club has recently been acquired by Kadokawa.
Maybe it is 100% majority.
😳
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If they have over 50%, they essentially own it because they can outvote everyone else at the shareholder meetings. Anyone with less than that just gets to share the profits.
But from the sound of the FAQ, basically J-Novel gets to keep going just like it has been, and Kadokawa gets a cut of the profits in exchange for assistance with licensing and legal (JP publishers get to talk to someone local they're familiar with for licensing, and Kadokawa's probably got lawyers with enough clout to chase Amazon when they de-list the titles on Kindle). At least that's my hope for how the arrangement is set up. :-)
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@pcj That's what i'm hoping for as well, that Kadokawa is sensible enough not to try and tinker with something that works extremely well already. That's the unfortunate danger of acquisitions like this sometimes... Only time will tell.
On the bright side, as was mentioned in the FAQ, this would really open the scope of series to be licensed which is always a good thing.
