{"id":35290,"date":"2015-01-29T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=35290"},"modified":"2015-01-29T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:01:07","slug":"asking-fans-to-cover-the-cost-of-publishing-alabaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/asking-fans-to-cover-the-cost-of-publishing-alabaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Fans to Cover the Cost of Publishing Alabaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/digitalmanga\/publish-osamu-tezukas-alabaster-vol1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1024x768-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"Publish Osamu Tezuka&#039;s Alabaster\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1024x768-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital Manga just launched its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/digitalmanga\/publish-osamu-tezukas-alabaster-vol1-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> seeking 29K to translate &#038; publish the two-volume Tezuka manga mini-series <em>Alabaster<\/em>.  I have a tough time envisioning how licensing, translating, and publishing only two books can possibly cost $29,200. It\u2019s significantly more than the Kickstarter amounts required to publish DMP\u2019s previous two-volume Tezuka manga titles <em>Ludwig B<\/em>, <em>Captain Ken<\/em>, and <em>Triton<\/em>. Furthermore, I\u2019m even more reluctant to contribute to such a substantial publication cost when the initial supporters actually pay 38% more than full SRP to acquire print copies of the two books, and then, after initial supporters have shouldered the entire cost of getting the books to market, DMP can proceed to collect profit from the ongoing sales of the books. Part of me wants to say, \u201cApproach the publishing effort the way any traditional publisher would. Fund it yourself, and I\u2019ll buy it when you release it.\u201d Then again, likely the only way this manga is ever going to see official English language publication is if obsessive fans aggressively volunteer to pay more than cover price to get these two books printed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve contributed healthily to DMP\u2019s <em>Triton<\/em>, <em>Unico<\/em>, <em>Atomcat<\/em>, and <em>Captain Ken<\/em> publishing drives. Since <em>Alabaster<\/em> is a title that I\u2019m actually interested in, I may decide to allow my enthusiasm to overrule my rational skepticism and contribute toward this project too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Manga just launched its new Kickstarter campaign seeking 29K to translate &#038; publish the two-volume Tezuka manga mini-series Alabaster. I have a tough time envisioning how licensing, translating, and publishing only two books can possibly cost $29,200. It\u2019s significantly more than the Kickstarter amounts required to publish DMP\u2019s previous two-volume Tezuka manga titles Ludwig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35290","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\/35290","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=35290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35295,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35290\/revisions\/35295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}