Is there a reason why LNs and Manga authors/artist don’t go independent and start selling peer to peer via e-commerce.
I know amazon kindle had helped alot of authors as it cut down the percentage that publishers would have originally taken.
Creators like douki and tawawa seem to have thrived doing so.
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Douki a cute but Kouhai has better reaction faces.
Because publisher backed advertisement and luck are the only two relevant factors in making it big.
You can compare SAO and Fate to the sad state they were in the early 2000s to the $$$ juggernaut both franchises are now after being pushed by huge companies to see what I'm talking about.
I guess publishing will be on you rather than a publisher with a lot of experience.
You might have a lot of clout online but your ultimate goal should be sales to put food on the table.
The reason people still use publishers is exposure. There are thousands of shitty artists peddling their webcomic "masterpieces", and even if your work is a cut above the rest, nobody will read it if they don't know it exists, let alone party money for it. If you're in a magazine, it means all its readers will at least check you out and maybe even buy the tanks. Plus magazines provide some degree of curation, which provides a minimum standard of quality for readers. Having an editor can be good or bad, but it's sometimes nice to have a good sounding board for your ideas.
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it also helps that they deal with a lot of the nonsense and hoop jumping.
She's getting cocky....
I think a strong social media presence will eventually win out over traditional publishers when it comes to exposure.
You really think the artists for Douki and Tawawa aren't making bank right now? Pretty sure they could sign up with publishers if they want but they get a larger cut from direct book sales and anything royalty such as patreon or an equivalent.
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Jesus. I'm glad I've got a boring but stable job that allows me to live comfortably.
A publisher has the connections needed to get adaptations.
>Sorry, I have got to date tonight
A few pages in and I feel bleak. It's not like I didn't know things were already rough, but it's probably even worse now ten years after this was published.
Dude put himself in the red because a good portion of his expenses go to supplies and art staff. Seems tryhard as fuck when he could just draw fun manga where lower art quality actually adds to the experience, no need to go all out with an entire crew.
>had to go on hiatus and hold his manga hostage just to get a raise for his assitants
I imagine that's out of character for the vast majority of Nips. They don't like rocking the boat.
800 pages a year by yourself would be extremely difficult unless you're cranking out ONE-tier art.
Don't ever fully commit to online commerce, especially when there are no alternatives to a service like Amazon. Even Visa/Master card could block you for using their services if they wanted to. We've already seen that warm-up with Amazon taking down light novels from their catalog
Damn.
What sucks is that if they had time to do commissions, their own stuff, and etc. they would be able to make more money p/month to supplement the income. Yet, you have to sleep at some point in time.
Thinking about being able to do your manga digitally must be game changer. I mean you don't have to buy the materials, just the license(s) and equipment and you are done. You don't even need your staff to really come in you can just let them stay at home to work.
Boichi and other mangaka do Youtube and that's another check coming in, as well. Even the other mangaka that does that ecchi comic that he streams on Youtube does damn near everything himself. I don't even think he has assistants.
Douki's popularity ruined Yom. He used to be a niche tights fetishist, but now the ironic weebs are following him.
They do though. Some sell manga in pixiv for example. The author of Tsurezure has a couple of manga there, one about an assassin girl and one about a cheeky ghost.
She's black.
He had a fucking anime.
>"Will manga exist 10 years from now"
Well yes, but actually no
Or maybe it's because there was an anime that got a fair amount of attention, I dunno.
all digital payments are a nightmare umless bitcoin and other alternative payments systems are on the cards, imagine having to navigate a chinese style social crediit score system...
Bigger reach, having it in print in bookstores and the possibility for further adaptations like manga, anime, even live action.
there no bigger reach than the internet though. you'll make more from quanitity and selling it a lower price if you can cut out distribution costs, printing costs and any other middle-man fees.
>Will manga exist in 10 years?
>-March 2012. Sato Shuho
>2012
The answer is a resounding yes.
The market is too diluted. You'd need tons of marketing.
The internet has a huge reach, but the question is how to get people to find you among all the crappy webnovels online. You're a nobody among nobodies, whereas publishers can regularly put out press releases listing "here are the new titles out this month from Kadokawa!" that gets up on major websites and gets noticed by people.
What will you choose, 70% profit (after cut for the marketplace platform) from 100 copies sales where you do everything or 10% from 3000 copies sales where you only have to write the book then sit nicely waiting for money?
The internet is too fucking big to get enough exposure, you have to fight with hundreds of thousands of other artists for Japan alone.
>Basically what he said was that manuscript fees weren't meant to be production costs for the manga, but rather "compensation for the production of the manga manuscript."
bruh what
I think it would work for western markets, but I think there's some sort of fundamental difference in eastern markets as of now where that's not really properly tenable quite yet. Might have something to do with the fact that it's much more established there than it is here and as such there are all those little niggling social and business and advertising rules that have been put up that make it impossible, or at least apparently impossible, to draw in the proper revenue base
That's just me spitballing though.