Acquisitions Speculation - General

MenyKanzaki

@terrence I personally want The World God Only Knows

Nosgoroth

11 volumes of Oregairu@comic are listed on Amazon for digital release on June 18, all at once, a week before the LN listing, so I'm guessing japan's side really have changed their minds.

It looks like they plan to release a bunch of volumes of the LN on the 25th too.

Give me ImoSae as well!

Terrence

I would have liked to have gotten A Sister is All You Need volumes digitally.

I think I only have two My Youth Romantic Comedy volumes sitting on the shelf, so that'll be easy to transition over for me if I do that.

Crimson Wise

Hmm, ImoSae seems to have digital releases on July 23, Tomozaki-kun too. ~~Although these don't even appear in Yen Press' website itself.~~ Wait, ImoSae does.

Nosgoroth

@crimson-wise Oh yesss. Also four volumes on the same day, looking at the related items, and the 5th on September.

Hyperion

Great news! I'll switch to digital for A Sister’s All You Need if it's true and I'd be really happy if Tomozaki starts digital, so I don't have to buy them twice. Btw, this is the list I have compiled of Shogakukan request topics for those interested:

Terrence

Tomozaki digital is a very good dream! Yay.

I've already got 3 Sis is all You Need volumes, but I'll likely switch after reading those. 2 SNAFU physical volumes here.

cosm1cfall

@crimson-wise regarding tomozaki digital:
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LegitPancake

Hope Middle aged Businessman isekai is coming soon :/

yumenokage

@legitpancake said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

Hope Middle aged Businessman isekai is coming soon :/

Ah, I keep forgetting about that one and then when reminded thinking like it sounds interesting. Luckily I have enough on my plate to keep me occupied for now, but at this rate I wonder if we won't get it until the next round of acquisitions.

Hyperion

Yay, the Monogatari series is coming digitally! I saw them listed on Kodansha's website yesterday, but Vertical will make it official tomorrow: https://twitter.com/vertical_staff/status/1135993444357328896

the green death

Soon the days of print only Light Novels will be behind us!

HamsterExAstris

No, it’ll be the days of “all digital but print is often cheaper”.

(Vertical priced the Masquerade and the Nameless Woman ebook at $13, when it’s retailing in print for $10-something. I expect Monogatari to be similarly overpriced.)

the green death

@hamsterexastris That doesn’t really bother me, as long as they’re available from legitimate publishers on digital, I’m ok if they have to cost a little more in order to get them.

Terrence

I'm pretty sure the prices are reasonable (like, 10 bucks). They were up on Google Play for a bit. I want to say Bakemonogatari was regularly 10, but it was discounted 2.00 for some reason to 8.00.

Rahul Balaggan

We will have to disagree on what makes a digital LN reasonably priced, cause to me $10 is not reasonable, hence why I do not buy Sol Press and SS LNs digitally...

Honestly speaking if JNC premiums cost $10 I would pay, no DRM and high res pictures with premium bonuses...

SomeOldGuy

I've been looking at the Toradora LNs for some time. But I haven't decided whether I want to buy the kindle edition (with DRM), or dead tree, because the DTE is cheaper at rightstufanime.com (with GotAnime discount) than the kindle edition.

I keep thinking, "DTE because it's cheaper and I can share it", then I do something like go try to organize my book shelves, and think, "Why do I need MORE paper here?"

Not going to order Monogatori digital, though... Already have DTE of everything that's been released.

Hyperion

@hamsterexastris
I don't know if this is the final price or if they'll change it later, but right now most of the digital Bake, Nise, and Neko novels are listed on Amazon at $4.99. The most affordable digital novels yet.

Terrence

Looks like that's a special. They're 4.99 on Google too (priced down from 10.99).

Hyperion

Yep, Terrence is right. The first season or the first 7 books are 50% off through 6/11. https://kodanshacomics.com/2019/06/05/monogatari-ebooks-nisioisin/

Makes me wonder if this means the Monogatari novels could be included in Kodansha's frequent digital sales like other Vertical titles have been.