What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
VIZ Media
Founded in 1986, San Francisco-based VIZ Media is the leading English-language publisher of Japanese manga, animation, and entertainment content. Beginning with its iPad app launch in late 2010, VIZ has rapidly expanded its e-manga offering to more than 2,000 different volumes for over 170 different series, available on native reading platforms from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.