J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker

Slush56.kjtqis9

Bookmaker has bibliophile princess vol 6. Does that mean you will start translating?

Slush56.kjtqis9

Sorry that was suppose to be book walker

Geezer Weasalopes

@slush56-kjtqis9 said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:

Bookmaker has bibliophile princess vol 6. Does that mean you will start translating?

[Insert standard canned response #1 here]

J-Novel, while also being a subsidiary of Kadokawa, must negotiate for every volume separately without regard to who the Japanese publisher is.
Said negotiations do not commence until the Japanese editions hit the shelves.
The negotiations take time, and are not guaranteed to prove successful.
Translation activities do not commence until after a license is signed.
J-Novel does not comment upon there even being negotiations until they announce that the first pre-pub section will be released in x days.

In short, Bibliophile Princess Volume 6 being released in Japan means Bibliophile Princess Volume 6 has been released in Japan, and J-Novel will say absolutely nothing other than a canned response until they are ready to post pre-pub chapters, including not saying that negotiations failed, if they failed.

BartzBB

@weasalopes said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:

including not saying that negotiations failed, if they failed.

I highly doubt negotiations would ever fail. It might be tricky and hard but would not fail. Especially since JNC already licensed the first few books.

My basis for this is the fact that Sol Press was able to grab some good titles even though the company was failing and did not have a good track record. They were even able to release more than just 1 volume of a series.

Geezer Weasalopes

@bartzbb said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:

@weasalopes said in J-Novel Club Announces New Business Partnership with Kadokawa and Bookwalker:

including not saying that negotiations failed, if they failed.

I highly doubt negotiations would ever fail. It might be tricky and hard but would not fail. Especially since JNC already licensed the first few books.

My basis for this is the fact that Sol Press was able to grab some good titles even though the company was failing and did not have a good track record. They were even able to release more than just 1 volume of a series.

It's doubtful they would fail in negotiations for additional volumes, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
Thus, I include that since they don't report failed negotiations.
If we never hear of an additional volume in a series even though it had been released umpteen bazillion years ago in Japan, negotiations failed.
So far that hasn't happened.

But if the chappie is so out of the loop to ask when the next volume will be ready days after it is released in Japan, one is comprehensive in covering all the reasons they might not hear anything concerning a release date for some time, if ever.