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Words, Words, Words « The News from BardHaven - 0 views

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  • a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age
  • some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading
  • But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.
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  • At least since the invention of television, critics have warned that electronic media would destroy reading. What is different now, some literacy experts say, is that spending time on the Web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even britneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text.
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Copyright quandary - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Sales of fanzines had never really caused big problems so long as they were done only at one-day fanzine exhibitions. However, some fanzines now sell in the thousands or tens of thousands of copies due to an increase in the number of bookstores selling them and the popularity of Internet shopping.
  • Even after the man had stopped selling it by himself, his fanzine carrying Doraemon’s “final” episode continued to be sold at Internet auctions, sometimes going for tens of thousands of yen.
  • Yet the series remains unfinished due to Fujiko’s death in 1996.
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  • We also cannot overlook the number of copies sold – 13,000 was too many.”
  • But we don’t categorically reject fanzines in general (as a base of manga culture) as long as they remain within reasonable bounds.
  • “If publishers basically approve the existence of such fanzines, the creation of a new rule should be studied, which would require fanzines selling more than a certain number of copies to pay part of their profits to copyright holders,” said Yukari Fujimoto, a social critic.
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The Truth Behind Shogakukan's Agressiveness Toward Doraemon Doujinshi? | ComiPress - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08 - Cached
  • he will pay an undisclosed amount of money for the settlement based on the sales generated by the doujins
  • Many doujinshi creators have criticized Shogakukan for taking legal actions and generally making a big deal out of one doujinshi.
  • The doujinshi was sold at a doujin shop in Akihabara and via internet for around 500 yen, and managed to sell over over 13,000 copies before being stopped by Shogakukan.
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