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New Era for Creators
April 16, 2009
It was reported that Shuho Sato, a popular cartoonist who is the author
of "Say Hello to Black Jack", decided to publish his work on his website.
The article of Oricon which was picked by Yahoo Japan reported it yesterday.
In fact, he seems to be able to show his work on his official website 1
month after his work is published on a magazine.
I couldn't imagine that a famous creator who has some big titles can't
earn enough.
Publishing business is terrible recently, which is same for newspaper
and media industries. After all, it will be tough to survive with traditional
business models in the future.
Without improving treatments for contents creators, some creators may start
to take similar action like him in the future.
The effort to find a new way with struggles without sitting down until
death will bring sure benefits in the future.
*This article was originally written in Japanese and not translated word by word.
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