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Translation notes for Soba-scans releases.

An article on English-to-Japanese licensing fees

Howdy everybody. This was something I wanted to post up sooner, but things have been a bit hectic around here the last couple of weeks. It’s an article I found on Comic Valkyrie’s twitter, believe it or not. It’s a blog entry from an anonymous book editor who works in Tokyo. The title of the article is “Steve Jobs biography sells one million copies and it still lost money?! What’s America have to do with it?

I thought I would translate and post it to help give a more complete picture of how international licensing works, since that’s a topic that often comes up in the context of anime and manga. Click through to read the full article:

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avatarryo
(Monday, May 20. 2013 09:50 PM)
yoh soba-scans ;3 i would like to ask a favor. can you scan some works of harumi chihiro like amai koe etc? ive seached it on the net but no eng translation T.T more power guys thanks :3
avatarDunny
(Wednesday, Mar 6. 2013 01:59 AM)
Kiss. Loved it. Can’t wait to check out some of the other stuff you guys have done.
avatarDunny
(Wednesday, Mar 6. 2013 01:58 AM)
Just finished Velevet
avatarZiggy
(Sunday, Feb 24. 2013 02:59 AM)
DIdn’t realize you were into monster girls, LD :P
avatarLD
(Sunday, Feb 24. 2013 02:45 AM)
Are they ant girls? Does he get to finally bag the queen in the last chapter? If it doesn’t exist then I might have to write it.

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