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DMG doesn't sell print editions. It's called DIGITAL MANGA for a reason.Kemm wrote:And, technically speaking, the future of the series seems bleak even for english releases. They "published" volume 1 in mid-august of last year and now, half a year later, not only they haven't published the second one, they haven't even started to sell the print edition of the first.
I only mentioned "print edition" because at their own site they've put at the page in question "Print edition: not available yet". And that still leaves my point of no new publishings in 6 months while they have back up to catch and when it's published in Japan at 3-4 months spans.krytyk wrote:DMG doesn't sell print editions. It's called DIGITAL MANGA for a reason.
I'm actually surprised they don't do a print-on-demand thing for people who absolutely must have a paper copy. Wouldn't be cheap, but I guess their licensing would probably specify if they can produce a print copy or not.Kemm wrote:I only mentioned "print edition" because at their own site they've put at the page in question "Print edition: not available yet". And that still leaves my point of no new publishings in 6 months while they have back up to catch and when it's published in Japan at 3-4 months spans.krytyk wrote:DMG doesn't sell print editions. It's called DIGITAL MANGA for a reason.
There's much more to do when it comes to publishing physical copies, different license type, distributors, printing, partners... etcetc. It's not that simple, let's say, web-license is a lower-risk investment as compared to publishing physical copies which you need to actually risk, if you print too much - you're gonna lose, if you don't print enough, you're gonna lose... additional costs... also I believe their current license probably doesn't ALLOW THEM, to sell physical copies. Just like crunchyroll has license for posting manga on the web, and different publisher releases physical copies for the same manga in US. Of course if the demand is big enough they might extend their license to physical copies, but those money-grubbers will probably base it on the amount of copies bought online.denormative wrote: I'm actually surprised they don't do a print-on-demand thing for people who absolutely must have a paper copy. Wouldn't be cheap, but I guess their licensing would probably specify if they can produce a print copy or not.
That's why I mentioned print-on-demand; there's no storage, minimum print run, etc. requirements. You toss essentially a PDF at the POD printer and then when an order comes in on your website for a copy, toss it across to the POD's site with a delivery address and forget about it, they handle the rest. It's more expensive, but it's great for low print runs of things because you're not eating the cost of returns, shipping, warehousing, etc, etc, etc.krytyk wrote:There's much more to do when it comes to publishing physical copies, different license type, distributors, printing, partners... etcetc. It's not that simple, let's say, web-license is a lower-risk investment as compared to publishing physical copies which you need to actually risk, if you print too much - you're gonna lose, if you don't print enough, you're gonna lose... additional costs... also I believe their current license probably doesn't ALLOW THEM, to sell physical copies. Just like crunchyroll has license for posting manga on the web, and different publisher releases physical copies for the same manga in US. Of course if the demand is big enough they might extend their license to physical copies, but those money-grubbers will probably base it on the amount of copies bought online.
The official policy is one year of inactivity, meaning no publications or announcements. It'd be up the admins to decide, but I'd include the fact they've since added volume 2 to their upcoming releases, even if it doesn't have a date yet, as an announcement. So I would say one year from that, which is probably a few additional months.Kemm wrote:Looking at Baka-Tsuki's termination policies, if the publisher's still don't do anything about the second volume by late august-september, this project will resume? LAst time I checked, I wasn't even able to find the first volume at their site (IDK if I simply got lost).