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The Manga Drought Of 2021 Is Hitting The Manga Drought Of 2021 Is Hitting Posted on Ben Applegate is the Director of Publishing Services at Penguin Random House in New York, where he heads a team of editorial and production professionals dedicated to publishing new manga and maintaining the backlist of their client, Kodansha USA Publishing, one of the world's top-selling English-language graphic novels publishers and a subsidiary of Kodansha, Ltd., Japan's largest trade publisher. Which means a lot of manga. But it turns out there could be a lot more manga, if there weren't a bit of a ...

Soaring Manga Sales Have Prompted a Shortage Worldwide ✖ The last year haas been aa difficult one the world round given the pandemic, but some industries are doing well amidst the onslaught. Though some prints were hit hard by COVID-19, it seems the manga industry managed to escape most of the damage. In fact, sales for manga are up around the globe, and one insider is warning fans to buy their manga now unless they run into some reprint issues. The advice comes from Ben Applegate who helps curate manga with Kodansha USA. Over on Twitter, he shared a short message with fans warning them to...

Cider pioneer Eleanor Léger on growing a business with intention Eleanor Ledger, founder of Eden Ciders, left her management consulting job in 2006 and bought an abandoned dairy farm in West Charleston, now home of her orchard. Over the past decade, Eden Ciders has expanded their product line to include bottled sparkling, rose, and special cellar series ciders, and recently launched a new line of canned ciders. Photos by Erica Houskeeper by Janice St. Onge, president of the Flexible Capital Fund​ Movies have been made about the romantic notion of leaving corporate America to start a busine...