Manga mobile

Mobile devices give second wind to manga

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Alan Gardner August 4, 2009 1 minute 0 comments

The New York Times reports that mobile devices is re-surging the popularity of Manga.

For a variety of reasons, the mobile version has manga booming again. In the year ending in March, Japanese manga publishers raked in ¥32.9 billion in revenue, up 43 percent from the previous year and from next to nothing in 2003, when manga first became available by cellphone, according to Impress R&D, a research company in Tokyo, which published the data at the annual Tokyo International Book Fair in July.