2013/05/04

48 hours later...

Thanks to Erica Friedman, My 4koma book GO GO NAO-P! got some more DL, and have got 57 DL /6th in Kindle free manga.

Japanese version? 318 DL at the moment, although the rate has been dropping down, still it's been downloaded now and then. Because of a big manga market in Japan and maybe - maybe because of a small Kindle Direct Publishing market in Japan. It's not so competitive, like US amazon.

BTW, only in Germany (among non-English speaking place) , the rate of the book is almost the same as US, it means German readers have still remembered me. ^^ Thank you!!

The free campaign comes to the end at 5th May, there is still some time. How many DL I can get?

One more information. I've just got an answer from PLEX and an editor of NOZOMI, and they agreed that I publish the manga from KDP. It's coming soon.

A shy young girl whose life changes the day she wishes on a falling star.

Her wish is unexpectedly granted but not in the way she expected.

A playful demon comes to Earth to teach her about love… the hard way.

Full color, 59pages

2013/05/03

About 24 hours later...

It's about 24 hours since the free campaign has started. It revealed the difference of Manga Market between Japan and USA. (seems...)

On AmazonJP(Japanese version of course), the book has been sold more than 200, and increasing every time I check it. But on AmazonUS - total 26 copies and stopped so far. What a difference it is!

I posted about this free promotion on my Japanese bloog. I got 1 RT of my tweet about the book. But I got more than 6 RT of my English tweets and the amount of access to my English blog is bigger than Japanese one. What does it mean? Because English manga market is much smaller than Japanese one? Because readers are not interested in 4koma manga in West?

...or Nao Yazawa is better know and read in Japan than US yet, even I'm working on Moon & Blood...?
That's a problem.... ^^;

Moon and Blood vol.4, my newest kindle book gets around 1st-3rd/New Releases in Manga and 4th / Fantasy manga. But this free book Go Go Nao-p! is 8th /free manga(you are surprised that you got 8th by only 26 copies). Mmm... I hope many readers take my book during this campaign. ^^;;

(In AmazonJP, Go GO Nao-p! is 18th in Best Sellers in Kindle Store)

BTW, I got information, thanks! ^^ Both the files from US Amazon work on iPhone/iPad.

2013/05/02

Go Go Nao-p!(4koma manga) is free now

The free promotion campaign has started.

check the title Go Go Nao-p! on Amazon :) There are English and Japanese editions.

So, it's free now. I bought both Japanese and English edition and DL to my iPhone.

The result was - it worked. The book is showed correctly, in Japanese manga style.

At least, on my iPhone(5).

"Available only on these devices " tab(in US) shows all generation of kindle, cloud reader, but I can't send the file to my Kindle4/cloud reader. If you have old Kindle (and android tablet), try it and let me know the result!

Anyway, you can enjoy the books with Kindle(fire and paper white), iPhone and iPad(maybe)

Because they are free, I recommend you to buy both editions. Japanese edition is much longer than English one. :) It's all in Japanese of course, but you can enjoy the drawing, I think!

2013/05/01

4koma kindle book will be Free from 1st May

The books are now free, both Japanese&English editions during the 5 days free promotion period! Read it ...and post some review if you have time :)
(Correction of the English is also welcome! :D)

And I'd like to ask you something -how the book is shown on your device.

The period is 5/1-5/5（12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time ), Golden Week in Japan. Not intended, just coincident. I wanted to start it from Monday, but I couldn't because of my try and error. I changed the language of the file from English to Japanese, from 2-spread page to single page, and the book's status went to review again and again ...^^;

I can send the free sample to my Kindle fire only, other my devices (iPhone, Kindle, Kindle for PC) are grey. But if it was Japanese version, you can send it to your iPhone. Seems English version can be seen with only Kindle fire series or paper-white. :/

So I'd like to know how it goes when you DL the files. The pages go right to left? Can it be 2-pages-spread? Or simply shows nothing?

Thank you!

English Edition Japanese Edition

I use KCC (Kindle Comic Creator from Amazon). It's a special app for Comic/Graphic Novel/Manga. It is easy, supposed to easy, just after some clicks, the mobi-file comes (took for a while, though)

Then I faced a problem. The file doesn't work on my iPhone correctly, although they say it works on iPhone/iPad and Android kindle app (I transferred the files from my PC to my iPhone via USB).

Anyway - I uploaded the files and found it was OK on my iPhone when you DL it from Amazon, the one Japanese language's was. But not English version. Why?? I'm confused...!! >_<;