[/floatr]The Age: Publisher to launch Japan's first monthly online comic magazineJapanese publisher Shinchosha will soon launch what it calls the country's first digital subscription magazine, an online comic regularly transmitted to mobile phones, a news report said Wednesday. "Com2" [Com Com] will contain about 200 pages of cartoons and is geared toward cell phones so readers in tech-savvy, comic-book-crazy Japan can keep up with their favorites on the go. The new service will be launched Friday. It will originally have cartoons in Japanese only, but Tokyo-based Shinchosha plans to add English and Chinese translations in the future, public broadcaster NHK said. Subscription will cost about 350 yen a month, and the format is also accessible through the Internet on personal computers.
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