Did something happen to One Peace Books eBooks?
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This Friday I was looking at the Kobo store entry for a particular manga from One Peace Books (to be specific, the Villainess Level 99 manga), and it was available at that time. When I looked for it again on Saturday morning it was completely gone, as was the whole series. Looking around, I saw that the series was unavailable on the Kindle store as well. After a little more searching it looks like all of the manga from One Peace Books have been removed from all ebook stores. Maybe their light novels, too? I'm not sure.
So far I haven't been able to find any announcements about this online, but maybe I just don't know where to look. Does anyone here know what is going on?
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@b-scot-morgan oh interesting, I hadn't heard of anything about Kobo before, but Bookwalker announced a similar thing recently that people had thought was related to CIW doing similar.
[Important] Takedown of eBooks from One Peace Books
Mar 28, 2025 (08:00 AM) PT
Thank you for using BOOK☆WALKER.
All e-books released from One Peace Books will be temporary taken down from our store on 2025/3/30 07:59 PDT. (2025/3/31 23:59 JST).
You will still be able to read the eBooks you have purchased, but the product page will no longer be available on the Bookwalker Global website.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and we greatly appreciate your understanding
So not really more information about what's going on with One Peace Books, but not isolated to Kobo.
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@GeorgeMTO Thanks, that is interesting.
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@b-scot-morgan Quarkboy (Samuel Pinansky/admin here on JNC) just commented on a similar reddit thread
Hi everyone wildly speculating! One peace is in the process of switching how their ebooks are distributed so this is definitely temporary.
So just looks like weird timing
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Books from One Peace are back on the Kobo store, so it looks like their distribution stuff is sorted now.
