Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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
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Soon the days of print only Light Novels will be behind us!
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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.)
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@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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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@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. -
Looks like that's a special. They're 4.99 on Google too (priced down from 10.99).
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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.
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I feel like I'm spamming this topic but, Yen Press is officially announcing the digital releases of their Shogakukan titles! It feels like Christmas.
https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/1136357934940807169Looks like just Oregairu and ImoSae for now. Hopefully Tomozaki will come soon.
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@hyperion Please do spam this thread!
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No Tomozaki-kun PR confirmation yet?
They did announce A Sister Is all You Need digital.
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@terrence
Unfortunately not today. Maybe they're waiting until its release next month? -
I think they didn't announce the digital listing of Tomozaki because most people aren't like us that know about publisher restrictions. I mean, they have a digital listing for it on their site. But for the average reader, they probably wouldn't realize it wasn't getting a digital release before.
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@aruseus493
Only those who prefer digital would care I guess. I find it interesting that Yen Press specifically mentioned Shogakukan in the original post and not left it as "here's 4 manga/light novels we got digital for." Most people probably don't care about the Japanese publisher or would even know what it meant to get digital from them. -
Yeah, I was surprised too.
The bigger thing that this does is potentially signal that this may open that publisher up to working with Western licensors who have to have digital versions alongside any physical release (like JNC and seemingly Sol Press).
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Yen Press is suddenly anouncing 3 new licences for December...now lets wait if there is a LN!! :D
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Did we know that Tomozaki gets digital? I asked Yen Press on Twitter and they said it will.
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It was hinted at by listings, but they didn't confirm it in the previous digital announcements of that label's books.
