On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 06:16:18 UTC+2, anime...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   > "The "print apocalypse" that shook the American magazine industry a few   
   years ago   
   > is happening in Japan too. It's not just Shonen Jump -- every manga magazine   
   has   
   > had a decline in readership -- most of them a major decline. Quite a few of   
   the   
   > lesser magazines have ceased publication.   
   >   
   > The fact of the matter is, thanks largely to smartphones, people are a whole   
   lot   
   > less in need of printed reading material than they used to be. Where you   
   once were   
   > able to hop on a train in Japan and see a good number of commuters reading   
   those   
   > giant phone book-sized weekly manga magazines aimed at every conceivable   
   > demographic, nowadays it's more likely that the entire train is looking at   
   their   
   > cell phone, a tablet, or some other device."   
   >   
   > See:   
   >   
   > http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2017-06-05/.117025   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > So, are smartphones, tablets, etc. the future of Manga?   
      
   I can imagine it. I got back into manga in a big way lately, mostly because it   
   is just so comfortable to read on my phone. I downloaded a manga reader   
   (Tachiyomi) from F-Droid and now am always reading it in the dark, when I am   
   rocking my son to sleep.   
   Of course that mostly contains fan-translated stuff, but if the industry goes   
   a similar way, and if they are smart, they should easily be able to harness   
   this trend and expand even in areas they don't have that much of a foothold in.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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