2012-01-29, 20:07 | Link #19282 | |
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It does terrible in polls, but the sales are high enough to not matter. You know, sorta like Hunter x Hunter and Death Note.
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Not much of a fan of his work, but he's still qualified to give an opinion on the industry, being in it for quite a while, and having been succesful within it. Last edited by DonQuigleone; 2012-01-29 at 21:08. |
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2012-01-29, 21:06 | Link #19284 | |
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----------- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72114.html Why punish us economically when we're already being dumped with dirt-cheap goods?
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2012-01-30, 00:25 | Link #19286 | |
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They think overtaking the US economy will make them the king of the world and they can do whatever they want ; the ruling party is certainly blinded by power.
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2012-01-30, 01:49 | Link #19287 | |||
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I get the customer loyalty to print media. I get the differences in reading habits. I also get that no one is particularly eager to fix a distribution system that ain't broke. But as Vexx was suggesting, switching to an online platform could lead to significant cost savings for consumers (and potentially for producers as well; junk the printing presses! Though, of course, industrial relations in Japan would probably make that incredibly difficult). Hasn't anyone in Japan tried to explore this market gap? If someone did, I'd be interested to know why the initiative didn't take off. |
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2012-01-30, 02:19 | Link #19288 | |
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You could ask your own bosses on how much work it took to push ST into digital format.
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2012-01-30, 02:39 | Link #19289 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Even so, there is no lack of online alternatives to print media in Singapore. The only major difference is that these producers haven't monetised their projects (though, in the case of Temasek Review Emeritus, it is not for lack of trying). And in the case of mrbrown.com, founder Lee Kin Mun has used his blog as an advertising platform for a number of ad hoc media projects. That's the thing: Where are the independent publishers in Japan and how are they adapting to the opportunities? From what I heard, porn spam on phones is pretty common in Tokyo? What's stopping doujinshi, for example, from tapping this channel? |
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2012-01-30, 03:13 | Link #19290 | ||
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It could be the societal pressure to do things religiously by the "norms" and "books" in the Japanese society that stopped the creative charge. Either that or they see the new media industry as a "risky new market" rather than a tool to reach out to their premier consumers more easily. The most common examples in counterarguments I hear for not moving into new media often cites the dotcom bubble as the reason why moving business onto the Internet is dangerous. Funny how some of the spokespersons who read about it failed to understand how Webvan went the same way as their comprehension of the dotcom bubble.
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2012-01-30, 03:31 | Link #19291 |
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EU leaders to agree on permanent bailout fund
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...80S0SR20120130
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2012-01-30, 03:37 | Link #19292 | |
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Spanish GDP falls 0.3% in final quarter of 2011 Europe stocks open lower, led by banks, Philips Only Barclays PLC was up.
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2012-01-30, 08:11 | Link #19297 | |
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Location: Germany
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I have a pivot monitor that gives me a 1050x1680 resolution (ie I can twist it 90 dregrees). If I view a manga page full screen on that, it works. But only if the scan quality is good. I still can't view scenes that stretch over a double page without zooming. And then it's not mobile at all. I can't see this as a huge competetion to paper mangas yet. Maybe once we get very high resolution e-paper devices (with colors!) that will change. |
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