Will any of the manga announced be added to Yen Plus? I noticed that portion of the magazine only has Soul Eater Not in it right now…

Glad to hear that BTOOm! is being licensed. It is one of my favorites!

More James Patterson.

Another and BTOOM!, amazing!
Good job guys. (y)

Thanks for the updates!

For Another, what will the dimensions be? Four volumes is a lot for one omnibus.

When are these going to be released? I’m really looking forward to Another. I watched the anime and can’t wait to get my hands on the manga and novel. I only hope the anime isn’t too far behind.

ANOTHER. YEN PRESS. I CAN’T EVEN. Wow, this made my day. Can’t wait. You guys are amazing!! Thanks for taking our requests seriously.

I am so excited that Another has been licensed! Lately Yen has been consistently knocking series off of my most wanted lists.

I’m ecstatic that you guys licensed the Another novel, but a digital only release?
This is probably close to as bad as the 3d covers you guys did for the Spice and Wolf novels.

YES! Another novels! Finally NOVELS! Now gimme more. Honestly, wish it was Kore wa zombie…or Durarara!! but this’ll do! I’ll take anything!

You got Another?!? =O Happy happy day!

I love you so much Yen Press! You always get the great stuff~!!!

Absolutely wonderful news, for getting another light novel licensed. Another was a rather interesting horror anime, and I’m anxious to read how the original novel went.
I’ll be looking forward to the physical book release though, specifically. But I imagine it’s a good idea to start releasing light novels in both formats, with e-readers becoming somewhat popular.

I’m happy about Another, but…
WHY IN OMNIBUS???
Seriously, why does it have to be like that? It isn’t cool or anything. It is going to be tooo fat and too expensive. I really prefer normal issue. If the author wanted it to be 4 volumes, than it should be like that.

Who will be drawing “The Way of Shadows”?
I didn’t hear anything about other titles, but I think ,that I will buy also “Another” and 1st volume of “Btooom!”.
Will “Another” have a hardcover omnibus edition ?

@John Paul: Took the words right outta my mouth, mate.

Loved the anime of Another. While I don’t ever plan to own a digital book, I’m thrilled Yen is still bringing over new light novels. Absolutely snatching up the manga if it’s even half as good as the anime.

i want Another novel!!!
please publish a book version!!!
i want it badly!!!
sorry for my bad english

OMG! BTOOOM! *—*
It’s a great action manga!
I would be so happy if you could release this mangas:
- Gosick
- Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
- Deadman Wonderland (PLEASE!! THIS MANGA IS GREAT!)
- Inu x Boku SS
- Gin no Saji (Great story, from Hiromu Arakawa)
- RG Veda
- Ao Haru Ride
- Mirai Nikki
- Big Order
- Dantalian no Shoka
- Ga-Rei
- Sora no Otoshimono

Awesome another!!! both manga and novel, I’m so happy with this news

Would be awesome if you could license some of these: Accel world, bokusatsu tenshi dokuro-chan, a certain magical index, mayo chiki, nichijou, mirai nikki,…

@Shiny

Mayo Chiki is already licensed by Seven Seas.

When will you get the licence for Durarara novels?

The Night Angel Trilogy as a graphic novel?!?! I’ve been waiting for this!! Thanks Orbit and Yen Press!!!

@non8

Not the novels though. Which is whats important…darn, as soon as i read Haganai and Mayo Chiki! iwas like WHAT!? REALLY!? then i realized it was just the manga…so disappoint…

I was looking forward to Another novel. I won’t purchase until there is a physical release. Please keep us updated as to when or if that will ever happen.

Could you PLEASE change the artist for umineko Episode 1. The artist is KARIN SUZURAGI NOT Hinase Momoyama!!!!!!

Very excited that you guys picked up Way of the Shadows graphic novel! Will definitely be picking that up when it comes out. I love the book series, so I’m sure I’ll love this too!

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@ non8

The Betrayal Knows My Name Illustration Book PHOSPHOR <– I'm definetelly with you on this one!!! I want this Artbook even if it costs 40 $! Of course without the borring CD and all that other stuff that comes with it.

And I think that Ao Haru Ride will be published by Viz, because they already have the license for Strobe Edge and will probably license this series as well. Sadly the things that suck with Viz are dropping their series out of the blue and zero communication with their buyers…

It’s good to see Yen Press is still picking up light novel licenses! Since Kodansha Comics have totally ruled out publishing any light novels at all, I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’d love it if Yen Press could pick up Zaregoto!

Digital release means Kindle format right?

« Depending on the response that the digital releases receive in the market, we may consider print releases based on demand. (This is true both of the Another novels and Welcome to the Erotic Bookstore.) »
So… If I want to buy a normal and wanted-by-everyone version of Another, I have to buy a digital verion? Ahah, no way! I buy mangas because I want to read them on my hands, seeing paper! If I wanted to read on a screen I would read them free, and you know what I’m talking about. So… No, I won’t buy Another digital novel. I hope you release it in a normal format and stop releasing only-digital books, because everyone prefers paper versions.

Right?
« Too bad it’s only a digital title. I’ve love to be able to see some gag & essay manga on my shelf. »
« I would have loved the novel as a paperback at least, but I will take a translated digital copy as well. »
« …I can’t get the novel digitally so i hope that it sells well so that a print version will be published. »
« I’m ecstatic that you guys licensed the Another novel, but a digital only release?
This is probably close to as bad as the 3d covers you guys did for the Spice and Wolf novels. »
« I am excited to hear that both the manga and novel of ‘Another’ were licensed. I do not own an e-reader device, but I hope initial digital sales warrant a printed release so I, along with the countless others without an e-reader, can show support in purchasing a great title. »
« Wait. Another novel is gonna be digital only or physical might be later? »
« Absolutely wonderful news, for getting another light novel licensed. Another was a rather interesting horror anime, and I’m anxious to read how the original novel went.
I’ll be looking forward to the physical book release though, specifically… »
« i want Another novel!!!
please publish a book version!!!
i want it badly!!!… »
« Still, praying for a physical release of the Another novels, can’t stand reading novels online and I don’t own any sort of nook or w/e. f »
« Please release Another in hardcopy at the same time. ebooks are not books. »
« I was looking forward to Another novel. I won’t purchase until there is a physical release. Please keep us updated as to when or if that will ever happen. »
« So are you saying more sales of the digital version for Another will increase chances of a physical copy or less sales and maybe a petition? I’d rather rather not buy the same thing twice but I will if I have to! » (That’s what you want, right? )
« So you’ll only MAYBE consider a print release IF the digital one is popular enough?

This is almost as bad as the Spice and Wolf release initially. It already seems that people are saying they’re not interested in a digital release, so chances are it won’t be popular enough for a printed release.

Damn shame. I know I won’t buy a digital one. »

Yeah, I’m right.

@Wildcat17, etc.
While you may find our treatment of Another “as bad as the Spice and Wolf release initially,” we did act on fan feedback, and the Spice and Wolf novels are now printed with the original art on the cover, which I hope shows you that we are absolutely not trying to screw fans over. Ebook editions are something many of our novel fans have been asking about for some time. While it’s a shame that “digital content” to some means “content that needn’t be paid for,” I hope that you will encourage your horror-loving friends who do use e-readers to check out the legitimate novel release so that perhaps you will see that print edition someday.
We’re lovers of print too, that’s why we’re in the book-making business! But this is a changing market, and we hope that we can count on our fans’ support as we try exciting new methods of publishing the material you love, including our simultaneous release of series like Soul Eater Not! and these latest digital manga/novel announcements.

Am I the only one who LOVES omnibuses?

Abby –

Is there a chance of Another 0 being brought over if the omnibus sells well enough? It’s fairly short, of course, but I’d love to get my hands on it. (I know I’ll be buying the manga omnibus! I don’t personally prefer them, but I understand the reasoning behind it.)

Also, people really need to keep in mind that eBooks are becoming more and more popular. Another isn’t a light novel; it’s nearly 700 pages altogether. And a whole lot of readers are switching to eBooks–a nice chunk being horror fans. YP is simply trying to attract more readers.

I was very excited when I saw that you will be publishing a graphic novel version of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It is one of my favorite novels right now, and I can’t wait to see how some of the parts of the novel not represented in the photographs look in the graphic novel. Definitly on my list to buy!

As for the other ones, I don’t believe I’ve heard of them before, but they all sound very facinating!

The writing is on the wall. E books are the future. Look at it this way. What costs more? Printing and warehousing physical books that sit and may or may not sell or having a file on a computer that you send out as orders are placed?

I will always prefer physical books but e books are the future.Now I know how people who preferred beta over vhs feel. >.<

Also since spice and wolf was brought up, those dust jackets are awful. If I hadn't already been a fan of the series I would have never given them a second look with that cover.

Nothing interesting this time besides Another, but I’d like that as a physical copy. I’m happy that you’re doing the LN, because LNs are great!
I’m still waiting for Fate/Zero and Kara no Kyoukai as LNs, which would be nice. The Type Moon fandom is pretty dedicated, considering bothof those are completely translated and still going strong with those two franchises, so…
I’ll be watching for the seacats though!

@ Abby: Any idea if the Yen Press app works on a Kindle Fire? My Mom has a Kindle and, having used it a little myself, I’m sold on it’s quality. Not very impressed or interested in the Nook.

I think it’s good to have digital releases if you have printed versions too.
I don’t deslike omnibuses, but I prefer normal volumes in terms of… shelf and fan apreciation? But in terms of money, of course I prefer omnibuses! And I’m starting to like the omnibuses more and more with the time, so… Yeah, go ahead

I second Kuragehime!

@Shaku The digital edition of the Another novel will be available anywhere ebook novels are currently available, so any e-reader or through an e-reader app. And of course there are ways to read ebooks on your computer even without the aid of a specific device (just less portable ^^).
Only manga digital releases are currently restricted by apps/devices, though we are working to make them more widely available~

About Another manga…
When?

@just checking You can go ahead and post your entries online, regardless of whether you were contacted or not.

can we read ‘btooom!’ here? because they’re not going to release it in manga servers. please reply (( ‘btooom!’ is one of my favorites. thanks

oh no digital content is hiting yenpress too… this is realy realy sad for the fans.

i’m a informaticien and i already hurt my eyes enough everyday at work looking at my screen, dont want to do it too for reading my manga/novel. i want to read them while lazying on my bed and enjoying some rest, no sitted in front of my comp…

i so hope that this trend will stop soon, i rarely ever found something worth buying on amazon nowaday, and i used to by two manga/weeks before

totaly not fighting the scans team the way you should. I know they’re a threat to your business but this isnt the way. why would people that go to scan team buy them instead ? it make no sense. i think the people that can be interested in buying are the fans that like to own stuff to read them many time. This type of people will buy a book already.
This is targeting the people that read scans then dont buy books, but those kind of people are maybe interested in manga, but dont like to read them more than once, and will not bother buying scans that they’ll only read once if they can have them for free.

Unlike movie/music where digital copy are often superior to physical one (in term of portability, easiness to use, quality, availability, longevability…. ), books are the other way around.
A book is easier to use than using some reader/apps that i dont want to bother with, they are more portable (the only app reader i tested was working poorly on my system, not bothered ever again), if we take care of them we keep them for very long (hell i still have my manga i buyed 15years ago and still like new, while i would have lost scan 500times already)…
The feeling of the paper in your hand, of the object you bought, of the reality that hold are all aditional value that only you can have, and that scans team will never have. this is what your most regular customer want.
By seeking new profit in new customers, you very well may loose your fidel client, while not realy suceed in grabing new one.

well, long thing short, i guess i’ll have to finish learning my japanese soon if i want to keep my passion for manga/novels

+1 for Sword Art Online. License that series, please!

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i forgot to mention that you should try and re license some of the series that tokyopop had(since they went under(and since some of their great series never finished being released))
Battle Royale and Deadman Wonderland(you just have to
and something that has only been licensed by a singapore company in english: Aphorism (please)

Thanks, Yen Press, for acquiring all of these titles’ licenses. Here’s another vote for print releases of the Another light novels and other titles that AREN’T dependent on how well the digital versions sell. While it may be true that the e-book market is growing, not everyone has an e-reader; but everyone can read a printed volume. And like some others who have already commented, I won’t buy a digital version in hopes that a printed version *may* follow *if* sales are strong enough, but I’d gladly pay a little more for a day-one actual book (even if it has to be an omnibus edition.) I don’t think a lot of people will buy the same title twice just to get it in hardcopy form.
Lastly, regarding sales and profit, which version is harder to pirate? A digital version whose DRM can be broken fairly easily in a matter of minutes, or a physical book which would need to be debound and scanned?

i agree with @voor about the piracy thing

I realize I’m probably going to be hated for this, but I actually prefer omnibi. If I’m new to a series, I’d prefer to buy the three-on-one volumes than one at a time. I usually only but one or two volumes at once when I go to the bookstore, and can usually only buy something once a month, if that, so I prefer to buy omnibi, so that I can have more of the series and save money for more later on. I mean, if I was a millionaire who could buy manga without a second thought to the cost, I’d be single volumes all the way, but with my limited income at this point in time, even omnibi where you only save 50% of one volume is still 5 or 6 dollars more that I can spend on something else, or save for the next time I buy manga.

I will admit, though, that it makes it a pain in the butt to get series that I already have one or two volumes of, and I’m trying to fill in holes or finish it out, since it means I have to try to figure out which volumes are included in which omnibus, to prevent overlaps…

and by novels I mean these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni_novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Umineko_no_Naku_Koro_ni_novels

definitely “doubt”, but dont forget about “judge”, as well as all the other recommendations from earlier

I will be severely disappointed if the Another novel is not printed. I don’t read digital books, and I buy every single light novel I see translated into English on the book shelf and even order it online if I have to. Keep the printed word alive!

I was very excited to see that the novel for Another was being published into English and decided to come to your site right away… but then I saw it will be a digital release only (and it might see a print release if the digital release does well). Well you instantly lost me on that, I want the actual book not a file that sits on my computer or makes me go out and buy a tablet to read it somewhat comfortably. Digital releases are better suited for movies and games. So with this I hope the book is printed otherwise I’ll just make it easy on myself and go download it for free somewhere.

I Actually Prefer To Have Printed Version Over Digital >_> If Only Yen Could Pick Up Some Tokyopop Licenses And Del Rey~~Jmanga Is Planning On Picking Up Some Del Rey But Since They Are Just An Online Thing I’m Not That Excited T_T

I’m most excited for Another, hope it’s received well, it would be a most welcome addition to the shelves with my manga collection ^_^

ANOTHER!! I love that anime, and I hope you can put the novels in paperback hardcover, like you did with Haruhi. I wish you guys would get Durarara!! I would love to read those novels.

One Word, BTOOOM!

I’m happy about the new license announcements, I will definitely be purchasing a few. Yen Press will you consider licensing Magi – Labyrinth of Magic? The characters are wonderful, you’ll be surprised by the depth of the plot. I think it will make a great addition to your already amazing titles!

I’d really like to see you guys translate and release Type-Moon’s Kara no Kyokai and Fate/Zero light novels.

when another (Novel) will be release? I’m dying to know.

Please release Another (novel) in a printed version! I would love to read it and don’t have the means to buy a digital copy! I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. Also, please release it soon. Good luck with the translations!

@Ramzi There is not a Yen Press app for Android yet, but you can download any number of e-reader apps (Nook, Kindle, etc.) through which you can purchase and read the Another novels.

PLEASE release Another in physical print.

I wouldn’t have to think twice about buying it, but on the other hand, there is no chance I’ll be reading it digital. I’d love to see it on my shelf…