November 26, 2014
By Request Extra: Digital Manga Shifts Gears After Tezuka World Failure; Want Funding For Ludwig B
After a big-failure with a massive, all-encompassing crowd-funder featuring a massive number of smaller, lesser-known Osamu Tezuka projects, Digital Manga has regrouped and announced a new strategy, project to project, with more modest goals.
Here's the first one. More importantly perhaps, is that they have made a lower amount of money necessary to get actual physical copies of the books they're offering. They're off to a good start, and we'll see if it catches.
I don't have enough of a feel for crowd-funding to kind of declare this one free of the troubles that plagued their last one beyond those easy-to-spot elements. I'd be interested in someone recrunching the numbers, particularly in light of claims of institutional costs last time around that I have to imagine would still be there. There is still very much an outreach to the "cause" of having these books published, which I find typical of the vast majority of crowd-funders and believe is part of the basic appeal. I suspect this one, at least, will have a much better chance of succeeding. One cynic wrote me wondering if the timing of the move over the holiday weekend was meant in part to avoid easy scrutiny from vacationing writers, so there may still be some trust issues involved.
posted 3:29 pm PST |
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