What the...

[petronia]

Erm, someone just posted to AMLA saying Biblos has filed for bankruptcy (this here).

o_O;;

EDIT (at an unholy hour of the morning): letter from Yamane Ayano apparently informing her ML of same, here.

Janie get the wheelbarrow, time to make a run on Amazon Japan

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[woodburner.livejournal.com]

?!?!

[astrael-nyx.livejournal.com]

This is actually one of the most surprising things I've heard, ever.

[lihsa.livejournal.com]

Eeh? Wha? I uh what? Nooooo...

[supacat.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I don't read a lot of Biblos, so I'm not really sure which unfinished serials are popular: I can only guess that there are fandoms about to explode with anxiety. (That Biblos press release is pretty hard to read -- is it saying that manuscripts were returned to the authors so that they wouldn't be seized in the bankruptcy? If so, I'm guessing that manuscripts, next-installments and rights are back with the authors and the popular series at least will be published elsewhere.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Mhh. Emi's been saying forever on AMLA that BL companies are losing business and cutting back. I wasn't all that surprised. If indeed the trend is to novels away from manga, even less so. No ill of the dead, but Biblos published a *lot* and its output followed Sturgeon's Law rather more than it had to.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Shall add, now I've read the article, that rumour at least says the BL section was still profitable and the bankruptcy was caused by overinvestment in another area.