Mobile manga beats out hard copy for lazy literati
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, by Marvin Feltcher. April 14, 2006
Japan remains the world's undisputed manga monarch, but the way Japanese are enjoying cartoons is undergoing a fundamental change...though manga readership has been declining here for over a decade....
...however, NTT solmare has carved a tidy niche for itself after merging the competing interests and its "Comic Site" has become the biggest mobile phone site dedicated to manga in Japan.
"We've passed 10 million downloads since starting the service in August 2004," a spokesman for the Osaka-based mobile phone company tells Sunday Mainichi. "We get about 2 million to 3 million downloads a month."....more...
