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Digital Manga Publishing to distribute via Kobo no comments
Digital Manga Publishing has made over 90 manga titles from its 
DMP, Juné and 801 Media imprints available at Kobo. Titles include the ever popular Vampire Hunter D and Il Gatto Sul G as well as a couple of manga, The Color of Love and The Selfish Demon King, that were recently pulled or blocked from the Kindle Store by Amazon. The average price for the manga at Kobo is $7.95.
Manga from Digital Manga are also available at the Kindle Store 
(via Anime News Network)
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Graphic.ly releases digital comics app for Android no comments
Graphic.ly has announced a new digital comics app for Android. The new app will work with Android 2.1 and above and is available at the Android Market or at http://graphicly.com/.
From the press release:
This milestone release marks Graphicly’s first entry to the growing and exciting Android marketplace and makes the more than 150 publishers currently available on Graphicly’s other applications available to a whole new audience. Publishers available include Marvel Comics (which is only distributed on Android via Graphicly), Archaia Entertainment, Archie Comics and BOOM! Studios and many others in offering a wide range of comics and graphic novels to the Android community.
“Like our community, we are firm believers in the explosion of the Android market,” said Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphicly. “Being the first to provide Marvel Comics on the Android platform is a perfect example of that belief. This application is only the beginning of the expansion of our relationship with Google, which began as a launch partner with the Chrome Application Store.”
The new application features a full storefront from which users can purchase comics, as well as the ability to sync with their current Graphicly comics library (containing comics purchased from Graphicly’s desktop, Web or iOS apps), giving users ultimate freedom to read their comics anywhere on any device. To optimize reading for the handheld devices’ form factor, the application will support ‘Graphicly View’ (a panel-by-panel reading experience) as well as full-page and pinch-to-zoom modes. Further, comic books can be both streamed and downloaded to users’ phones to ensure reading regardless of users’ connectivity. In addition to buying and reading comics, the Graphicly community is connected through a vibrant social stream, allowing for users to share their activities with friends and find what books are most popular.
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Cloud 9 Comix brings international comics to the iPad no comments
Cloud 9 Comix, Australia’s first digital comic book publisher, has launched a new app that brings some of the best indie digital comics from all six continents to the iPad. Many of these titles are being translated and adapted into English for the first time.
From the press release:
“We are big fans of the international comic book scene and
we will bring a number of classic Italian fumetti, French BD, as well as titles from Asia and South America to the digital platform, starting with the iPad and following up with Android and other platforms in the coming months”, says Mr Slabak (founder of Spectrum Pacific Publishing, the parent company of Cloud 9). “Furthermore, we will work with and support independent comic book authors and small publishers in making their titles available to an audience that’s wider than ever before. A myriad of digital tablets and e-reader devices are slated for release during 2011 and we expect the digital comic book scene to experience a boom in 2011”.
The iPad app, codenamed Silver Lining, available now as a FREE download from iTunes, was developed internally by Spectrum Pacific Publishing and it features a store-front that lists the available comics, previews of each comic, and a handy shelf feature where the purchased comics are stored and easily accessed. The simplicity of use of the app is one of its strengths and the comic book fans will surely enjoy flipping between the pages of the many comic books and graphic novels available in the store, with a number of free ones available to download. The full catalog of the comics is also available on the official website http://cloud9comix.com.
Cloud 9 Comix has also collected the best of Australian comic book titles under its brand and titles such as Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes, Vienna, Dark Nebula, Southern Squadron, The Wraith, and others, which are already available for purchase in the Cloud 9 Comix iPad store.
Mr Slabak drew attention to the quality and clarity of comics on the iPad which is “perfect for comic books and it allows one to take their comic book collection with them and read them on the go; and with most comics priced between $0.99 and $1.99 USD, it has never been more affordable to get back into the wonderful world of comics and graphic novels. Our catalog offers something for everyone, with new titles being added on regular basis”.
Small publishers and independent studios such as Red Handed Studios, Ratti Entertainment, Spinner Rack Comics, Black House Comics, Level 10 Comics, Azure Press, Heroic Publishing, Cinemacomics, Urban Style Comics, Vimanika Comics, and a vast number of others, have joined the ever-growing Cloud 9 Comix family, which now features over 150 unique titles from all six continents, making Cloud 9 Comix the only truly global digital comic book publisher. Additionally, comics will be available in a variety of languages including Italian, Spanish, German, Croatian, and others.
The Silver Lining digital comic store-front app is free at iTunes.
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OverDrive adds Liquid Comics to catalogue 1 comment
OverDrive announced on its blog today that it has 
added over 150 titles from Liquid Comics to its US catalogue. These titles will be available to US libraries that use OverDrive’s Maximum Access plan.
Liquid Comics creators include Nicholas Cage, Ed Burns, Guy Rithie, and Deepak Chopra. The collection features newly released The Econauts, which follows a group of gifted teens who fight crimes against the government. There’s also John Woo’s Seven Brothers, a series set in modern day Los Angeles were seven men have nothing in common but their destinies. Titles vary by age, most in the 12+ age audience.
Liquid Comics, formerly known as Virgin Comics, was founded in 2006 by Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra and others. Many, but not all of its titles are based on Indian culture.
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Manga for the Nook Color no comments
Digital Manga, Inc. (DMI) is launching Nookbook
versions of their manga titles. The first title to be released is Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi, which will be available in two parts priced at $3.99 each. Separate editions especially formatted for the Nook and Nook Color are available at the Nookbookstore.
Vampire Hunter D is also available at the Kindle Store. The Kindle version is $7.95 for the the complete Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 (each volume is not broken into two parts as the Nook versions are).
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New Graphic Novel Publisher to Focus on Bringing Content to Tablets; Square Enix to Launch Digital Manga Store in North America and France 1 comment
Luminous Books LLC is a new company that will be creating content for the iPad and other tablets. From the press release:
Luminous Books LLC, a newly formed company which will be delivering highly curated, rich-media content and periodicals to the tablet PC market, today announced that Andrew Cosby will be one of the first writer/producers to collaborate with the company on original content. The company chose to announce the collaboration prior to this year’s Comic-Con convention, because of Cosby’s highly successful work as the co-creator of Boom Comics and the Eureka Television series on the Syfy Channel.
"What Luminous is doing is incredibly exciting and fundamentally different from the other stuff I’ve seen in this category," stated Andrew Cosby. "It’s the main reason I decided to work with them. I’m all about breaking new ground, and they’ve developed an imaginative new approach to the medium, one that I’m convinced will allow us to capitalize on the truly transformative nature of these devices. Using the iPad and similar tablet devices, we will be collaborating on products which will engage parents and kids like never before. We’re talking about an evolutionary step forward in children’s media, and I’m excited to be part of it."
Luminous Books will be publishing graphic novels, comics, children’s books and other material. Initially the company will be focusing on the 8-12 year old market. The company does not appear to have a website as of yet.
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Square Enix announced yesterday that will be launching a digital manga store for North America and France this fall. From the press release:
Square Enix currently releases manga titles in 20 countries overseas through partnerships with local publishers. Series in circulation include Fullmetal Alchemist, with cumulative foreign shipments now surpassing 10 million units, as well as others that continue to garner worldwide acclaim, such as Soul Eater and Black Butler(TM).
Given the increasing popularity of electronic reading formats, Square Enix has decided to take advantage of the online distribution infrastructure originally developed for its games business, along with the company’s existing payment system and online fan communities in order to establish a paid digital distribution channel to better serve the varied needs of its global customers. Square Enix will continue to work with its existing regional publishing licensees to promote both electronic and print versions of titles, while aiming to deter piracy by establishing an official web-based distribution source.
Square Enix is offering free sample chapters of Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, Soul Eater by Atsushi Ohkubo, Black Butler by Yana Toboso and O-Parts Hunter by Seishi Kishimoto at its North American and French websites.
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DC Comics Goes Digital no comments
DC Comics, which publishes more than 80 comics monthly
including Superman, Batman and many more, has launched an iPad and iPhone app. DC has also struck a deal to offer its digital comics on Sony’s PlayStation Network.
Initially the new iPad/iPhone app will offer more than 100 issues from the DC library and the company plans to add around 100 additional issues each month. Issues will be priced from $.99 to $2.99, and there are some freebies. DC’s major imprints – DC Comics, Vertigo, WildStorm and Zuda will be represented.
On the the PlayStation Network DC will initially launch with more than 80 issues, adding 50 or more additional titles per month.
DC also says that it is not forgetting about brick-and-mortar stores. The publisher says that its “Retailer Affiliate Program” will include "a portion of digital revenues to be invested back to and on behalf of comic book retailers in a variety of initiatives."
(via Newsarama)
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WOWIO Expanding no comments
WOWIO is an online ebook store specializing in graphic novels and comic books. Here you can read complete books online (no Flash – iDevices welcome) for free, which is ad supported, or you can pay to download PDF files that you can read on your ereader or other device. WOWIO uses social DRM – a reader’s authenticated name and other identifying information are embedded in purchased ebooks.
Last week WOWIO announced the close of almost $2 million in private funding. The financing has enabled WOWIO to make a couple of acquisitions and to make improvements to its website. WOWIO’s CEO Brian Altounian elaborates: “In addition to technology, an online community and social networking tools, we have added amazing creative talent which will provide WOWIO with studio capabilities to create original content for broad media exploitation.”
WOWIO announced the acquisition of WEvolt last week. WEvolt provides an array of tools that allow artists working in any medium to upload, promote and monetize their content while bypassing the expensive world of traditional print media.
One of WEvolt’s founders, Jason Badower, is the artist responsible for the television tie-in graphic novels for True Blood (HBO) and Heroes (NBC).
Yesterday WOWIO announced another purchase, this time of DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. DrunkDuck is a leading webcomics community where content creators are able to post their creations and then interact with fans on the site’s forums. This acquisition will expand WOWIO’s content library as well as its user base.
"The DrunkDuck site, community and existing library of content will remain unchanged," said Altounian. "Fans, publishers and advertisers will be pleased to know that it will be business as usual for DrunkDuck as well as WOWIO, and with our recent integration plans with WEvolt, we are unifying known entities and melding them into one superior comic and eBook destination."
WOWIO will also be giving its website a facelift by providing additional search options, a more visual interface and by making it more iPad-friendly. The redesigned site is expected to launch on July 1, 2010.
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