J-Comi

Manga Library Z (マンガ図書館Z, Manga Toshokan Z),

The first beta test began on November 26, 2010, and included all 14 volumes of CEO Ken Akamatsu's Love Hina.^[3][4] Over the first two days of the beta, there were more than 1 million downloads.^[5] Publishers Kodansha and Shueisha are collaborating with J-Comi, and Shueisha provided some additional manga titles for a second beta test.^[6]

One of the titles in the beta test, Mayu Shinjo's "After School Wedding", earned 525,000 yen over a month.^[7]

Amnesty program

J-Comi created an amnesty program for unauthorised scans of out of print manga, the "Illegal Out-of-Print Manga File Purification Project,"^[8] whereby users of J-Comi would upload them anonymously to J-Comi, J-Comi would seek permission from the author to publish them, add advertising to the manga and publish them, giving the author the revenues.^[9]

Other developments

Currently in Japanese only, J-Comi worked with Google on a comic viewer which could be expanded to American consumers.^[10]

Readers can add commentary or translations to J-Comi titles.^[11] As of September 2011, J-Comi hosted 103 works. In October 2011, J-Comi added a pay service for erotic manga,^[12] including a title which was banned under the revised Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths.^[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• Official blog of Ken Akamatsu, includes many entries on J-Comi