Category: Japan
Sony to expand investment in Japan’s Kadokawa with 50 billion yen, 20 billion of which will be used to to ‘create, develop and acquire new IP
We are witnesses to, and participants in, a New Global Renaissance quite unparalleled in human history, and the era of AI will help that renaissance shift up a gear as it liberates human creativity and potential.
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Along Came A Spider-Manga – east meets west in a new comics collaboration
The Manga will be released simultaneously in English on Viz Media’s Viz Manga app starting August 13 (U.S. time) and in Japan by Shogakukan on August 14 (Japan time).
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Japanese laureate deals fatal blow to notion that AI will never write as well as a human
A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI Resistance, but also a whole load of trouble for lawmakers and AI regulators who thought they had the topic nailed.
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Rights News: Finland – “Beasts of the Sea” sold to Japan and the Arabic markets
This year at TNPS we’re going to try shed some light on the international rights deals happening where the English-language sun doesn’t shine.
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Will western publishers finally wake up to online reading now Amazon and Apple are in the webtoon game?
Imagine if an old School publishing CEO had been in charge of Apple. The iPod, iPhone and iPad...
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Japan Book Publishers Association demands copyright law review in light of AI developments
The group stressed the need to clarify the interpretation of, and decide whether copyright law...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Japan shows world’s publishers how to deal with IP pirates: Lock ‘em up!
Copyright theft is theft, pure and simple, but exaggerating the losses and exaggerating the threat...
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Arabic folk tales get a second Manga outing. Jinn about to launch in 190 countries. As Arab storytelling goes global, when will publishers catch up with digital video?
Manga has long since moved away from its homelands in the Far East, and we in the west tend to...
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Over 5 million visitors spend over $5 million at India's 2019 book fairs. And we're only halfway through February
India’s Kolkata International Book Fair wound up earlier this week and the numbers are in:...
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Start The Day Global – 5 Not to be Missed Publishing Stories from Around the World
A writers workshop in Abu Dhabi that went from 12 to 2,500 members. A pay-to-get-in bookstore in...
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