{"id":612,"date":"2002-12-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/ask-john-why-are-anime-magazines-so-expensive\/"},"modified":"2002-12-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-are-anime-magazines-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-are-anime-magazines-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why are Anime Magazines So Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy are anime and manga magazine subscriptions so expensive?  I&#8217;d say that the average price for an American magazine subscription is about $20.  So why do anime magazines cost on average from $60-$120?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nTypical American magazines offset their printing costs with massive advertising revenue generated by printing hundreds of advertisements.  Typically American anime magazines simply don&#8217;t run as many ads from nearly as many companies as mainstream magazines do.  Furthermore, since an American anime magazine doesn&#8217;t sell even a 10th as many copies as People or Time Magazine do, American anime magazines have smaller print runs. And smaller print runs are more expensive to publish.<\/p>\n<p>Import anime magazines are expensive simply because of their size.  Import magazines like Newtype and Animage have 250+ pages printed on glossy paper.  Manga magazines include upwards of 500 pages.  That much paper simply weighs a lot and increases the shipping cost of importing these magazines.  That increased shipping cost gets passed along to the consumer through retail cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Why are anime and manga magazine subscriptions so expensive? I&#8217;d say that the average price for an American magazine subscription is about $20. So why do anime magazines cost on average from $60-$120?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}