Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@warstalker said in Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love:
@legitpancake but what prevents original publisher selling license to another translator, because for example first translator is too slow translating light novel?
The original publisher here is HJ Bunko, or Hobby Japan, they licensed the series to Sol Press for translation into English, Sol Press can do whatever they want to do with that title as long as it stays within whatever contract terms they worked out with Hobby Japan.
So Sol Press has full exclusive English rights to Detestable Demon Lord, and unless Sol loses those right for whatever reason no one else can license it.
If theoretically Hobby Japan said that if Sol Press does not release at least 1 new volume every 2 years or something they will then forfeit the license, then other companies such as J-Novel Club can try to secure the title.
As of right now today, nothing can be done.
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I've been checking their homepage very frequently for updates, but... nothing for the past 3+ months or so. It's kinda bad when their last post about progress updates literally says "4 months ago" on their own site. Sigh. Even their Twitter account is mostly a ghost town.
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Also, apparently Sol Press's 18+ novel "Busy Wizard" has been taken down from Amazon US (don't know about other countries). It's still available on
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Hmm, I should get around to removing the DRM on the few Sol Press titles I own, just in case they disappear completely from Amazon not just for new buyers. The two Strongest Gamer books were good.
Sigh. I was thinking we might get volume 2 of 80,000 gold that was "100% translated" in April 2019 and "in QA" November 2019 sometime this year, now I'm losing hope.
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Yeah, they aren't selling Busy Wiz on their store cause it could lead to payment provider issues or something (like what happened with MangaGamer for a good part of last year because of their 18+ stuff). Sucks cause outside of Google, that's the only way I'd buy it.
Definitely sets a bad precedent when one of our first major 18+ labeled LN is being banned from the major book seller. In roads to getting more 18+ LN getting harder / publishers probably more cautious. =[
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@terrence I hold some hopes, Futekiya, an 18+ BL manga subscription service, managed to get Stripe to reinstate them (possibly due to twitter-shaming)
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@caramelwithoutthesalt They aren't doing it without reason. Although the reason is a little outdated. Banks/payment processors associate 18+ content of any type with a clientelle that is more likely to use stolen/illegal credit cards, which could lead to a lot of chargebacks. See this article for more: https://medium.heartpie.com/nsfws-payment-processing-problem-aa0d53c0ea2f
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@jon-mitchell Amazon is also huge, with the majority of its merchandise being SFW. Odds are that those factors drop it back down into the low-risk section.
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@CaramelWithoutTheSalt said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
Amazon is
Amazon themselves aren’t
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I think you found your answer. I don't know what you're trying to get at here, but Amazon isn't a payment processor, they're a content provider. If Sol Press wants to sell their stuff on anything but Amazon, they need a payment processor, and the ones that are trustworthy, reliable, and easy to work with are the ones that don't allow 18+ content.
You don't need a press release from Sol Press to know that this is how things work. If you don't believe chocolatkey, then do the research yourself.
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Well I hoping they release a physical version of Busy Wizard: This Warlock Just Wants to Provide for His Wives!
I pay for that one and I even preorder it.
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@myskaros said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
I think you found your answer. I don't know what you're trying to get at here, but Amazon isn't a payment processor, they're a content provider. If Sol Press wants to sell their stuff on anything but Amazon, they need a payment processor, and the ones that are trustworthy, reliable, and easy to work with are the ones that don't allow 18+ content.
Sol Press has dabbled in visual novels, and that area has both erotic content and storefronts for that erotic content. What exactly is so difficult for Sol Press to solve the payment processor issue that wasn't such an issue for denpa, mangagamer, j-list, nekonyan and all the other ones I can't remember right off the bat?
I think a lot of the blame does lie with them, all their troubles with their various kickstarter campaigns should make that pretty evident...I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't hold a lot of light novel content I care about essentially hostage(looking at you, Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World...).
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@Korppi I can't speak to VNs because I don't follow that side of things, but are you saying that their VNs have been taken off stores as well? If so, then you're right, it seems to be a problem with Sol Press. But if not, then their VNs are irrelevant since we're talking light novels, not visual novels.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Sol Press is doing nothing wrong, I'm only saying that when it specifically comes to 18+ light novels, there is a more basic problem that needs to be solved first, outside of whatever issues Sol Press may be having internally.
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What does not help is their lack of keeping to schedules. I have waited for an official Chivalry in English for a long time, it and Rokujouma are what started my love for light novels.
If I have the choice of physical and electronic, I will always choose the physical, especially for a series such as this. Yet, the release date of February has come and passed.
Exceptionally disappointed.
Author of Praetor's Blood.
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@custodes If a month late was all they were I'd be happily ordering books from them still, but they're far, far worse than that. I ordered a physical copy of volume 1 of both the manga and light novel of 80k Gold way back in August of 2019. Eight months later and there's no sign of the books, and no updates from them on their printer status other than a post someone from their company made on Reddit I think back in November or December saying they were making sure quality control was right at the printers this time. At this point I've almost written off getting anything for the $30 I spent up front, since their official store charges through PayPal immediately. I certainly won't be trusting them with any other pre-orders going forward.
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Seems like they just want to concentrate on visual novels and almost only visual novels. Everything else is just whatever, whenever. It's just a really bad situation.
