{"id":11644,"date":"2007-07-06T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/production-ig-to-acquire-mag-garden\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T13:43:00","slug":"production-ig-to-acquire-mag-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/production-ig-to-acquire-mag-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Production I.G. to Acquire Mag Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Production I.G. has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.production-ig.co.jp\/company\/pdf\/20070704_aim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">formally announced plans<\/a> to merge operations with Japanese manga publishing company Mag Garden, in effect, absorbing the publisher. Production I.G.&#8217;s decision is explained by sluggish anime DVD sales, the nonviable state of the DVD-only business model, declines in sales of manga magazines, and an ongoing Japanese market shift away from printed comics toward online services. The merger will take effect on December 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2007-07-05\/production-i.g-announces-mag-garden-merger\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production I.G. has formally announced plans to merge operations with Japanese manga publishing company Mag Garden, in effect, absorbing the publisher. Production I.G.&#8217;s decision is explained by sluggish anime DVD sales, the nonviable state of the DVD-only business model, declines in sales of manga magazines, and an ongoing Japanese market shift away from printed comics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}