According to ActiveAnime.com, VIZ is teaming up with Copyright Promotions Licensing Group, Ltd. (CPLG), an English company, to form VIZ Media B.V., which will, and I quote
generate new business opportunities and revenue streams by coordinating all aspects of brand development through a property’s lifecycle
A careful parsing of the press release reveals that they are planning to sell manga and anime in Europe—and, from the sound of that last bit, milk it for all it’s worth.
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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