{"id":1785,"date":"2008-06-13T21:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/06\/13\/tokyopop-to-stop-publishing-print-versions-of-oel-books\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:25:25","slug":"tokyopop-to-stop-publishing-print-versions-of-oel-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Tokyopop To Stop Publishing Print Versions of OEL books &#8211; Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rivkah, the creator of OEL\/World Manga <em>Steady Beat<\/em> as <strike>published<\/strike> <em>formerly<\/em> published by Tokyopop, Tokyopop is going to cease publishing print editions of non-licensed work. From her Livejournal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Just got off the phone with my editor, and it looks like not-so-good news for Steady Beat. In fact, it looks like not-so-good news for anybody who&#8217;s working with TP right now. I&#8217;m not sure how much I should say for fear of causing an outright panic with other creators, but essentially, nearly all of Tokyopop&#8217;s future books will be going straight to web. This wasn&#8217;t a case-by-case scenario. Neither I nor any other single creators were singled out. It looks like the whole line of non-licensed material will cease printing and be promoted online only.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lilrivkah.livejournal.com\/249792.html\"><strong>Rivkah, Livejournal, June 13th 2008<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The creator is going to discuss the possibility of regaining the print rights to her work, or at least the (as-yet unpublished) third volume of <em>Steady Beat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You really ought to go and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update June 14, 2008: <\/strong>According to creator Christy Lijewski, not all books are going to the web. She says that the third volume of her series &#8220;re:play&#8221; will be published by Tokyopop as scheduled. Also, in the comments (scroll down) Lijewski notes &#8220;<span id=\"ljcmt6918671\"><em>Yeah it really is case by case as some things are getting flat out cancelled (like Bettina&#8217;s book) and some things are going to web (like Rivkah&#8217;s book) and other things are being left alone.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span> Yikes, you know? Just&#8230; yikes. Check it out for yourself, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zombiejam.livejournal.com\/119311.html\"><strong>http:\/\/zombiejam.livejournal.com\/119311.html<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rivkah, the creator of OEL\/World Manga Steady Beat as published formerly published by Tokyopop, Tokyopop is going to cease publishing print editions of non-licensed work. From her Livejournal: &#8220;Just got off the phone with my editor, and it looks like not-so-good news for Steady Beat. In fact, it looks like not-so-good news for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tokyopop To Stop Publishing Print Versions of OEL books &#8211; Updated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}