Blackjack ni yoroshiku manga to be posted online
The Blackjack ni yoroshiku author Satou Shuuhou has announced that he will be putting up chapters from his manga on his site a month after they’re published in Big Comic Spirits magazine. Visitors will have to pay a small fee to read the manga on his site.
The thing about this is that magazines are paying authors to buy the rights to publish their manga on their magazine, but the rights to the original manga still belongs to the author, so as the author he can technically do whatever he wants with his manga after it has been published.
He’s trying to find a new business model where authors don’t need to rely on publishers, and he wants to see if it is possible for a manga author to produce manga while maintaining a consistent level of quality and speed without having to rely on a publisher.
He believes his current serializations will probably be the last of his work that will be published on magazines, partly because magazines will probably stop asking him for new serializations after this.
The date when he will start posting his manga online or the cost of each chapter has not been announced yet.
Via: Yahoo news
He has been writing a lot of stuff about the manga industry on his site over the past 2 weeks, mainly about money, manga authors not getting a big enough share of the money, and… other money matters. I was going to post about his stuff more than a week ago but that post has been half written in draft form and untouched forever because the post got too long! Amazing!
