Although the headline says Publisher to launch Japan’s first monthly online manga magazine is sounds a bit misleading, because the magazine is actually the first (orone of the first) for mobile phones:
Publisher Shinchosha will soon launch what it calls the country’s first digital subscription magazine, an online comic regularly transmitted to mobile phones, a news report said Wednesday.
“Com2” will contain about 200 pages of cartoons and is geared toward cell phones so readers in tech-savvy, comic-book-crazy Japan can keep up with their favorites on the go.
The new service will be launched Friday. It will originally have cartoons in Japanese only, but Tokyo-based Shinchosha plans to add English and Chinese translations in the future, public broadcaster NHK said.
Subscription will cost 350 yen a month, and the format is also accessible through the Internet on personal computers.
As everyone knows, the Japanese are phone-crazy and this is a logical step in the evolution of the non-paper comics economy.
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