New e-book distributing company J-COMI

One of greatest manga artist Ken Akamatsu founded new e-book distributing company J-COMI, and opened its "beta" web site j-comi.jp on 26 Nov. Now on j-comi.jp, all of Akamatsu's known manga series "Love Hina" is available for download as PDF formatted e-book.



"Love Hina" ( 1999-2002 ) was successful manga sold total 10 million, however now it is discontinued publishing. "Love Hina" author Akamatsu thought how to share discontinued work with manga fan, decided to establish J-COMI and distributing his work with author's sight.

E-book file on J-COMI is DRM free and J-COMI says user can copy E-book file freely. Some advertising/afferiate page is inserted on E-book, its revenue will connect to author (not publisher) directly. Akamatsu says it is not problem casual copying J-COMI e-book because it contain advertising. Also says some of cutting-edged e-book format is difficult for general users, it is important using spread PDF format.

According to announcement, "Love Hina" was downloaded from j-comi.jp total 1 million times during 3 days. I am looking forward to watching future developments of J-COMI.