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CuriousFactory writes:DLSite.com, Japan’s biggest online product distribution site, is now accepting works from outside of Japan

HERNDON, VA ・March 9, 2007 - CuriousFactory today announced that DLSite.com, Japan’s most notable distribution portal site for Doujin and Indy products, is accepting works from outside of Japan.

DLSite.com carries thousands of Doujin products such as Doujinshi, CG collection, game, novel, music, and utility tool. Due to the increasing interest from the creators and users outside of Japan, CuriousFactory and DLSite.com is now working together to accept works from outside of Japan.

Ayaka Hahn, the Director of CuriousFactory says, “DLSite.com has a long experience in the field of online digital product distribution in Japan. They have been helping many creators to self-publish their works effectively. Recently the Internet allows the creators all over the world to share, distribute and sell their works. With trusted, experienced product download distribution service like DLSite.com, it is now easier than ever for individual creators to distribute and market products to reach the world audience”.

Characteristics of DLSite.com

• In total, DLSite.com has more than 4,200 registered creators and productions, has more than 19,000 registered titles, and has sold more than 7,000,000 products to date.
• There is no limitation to the product size that can be uploaded onto DLSite.com for distribution. (On average, each title is about 1 GB)
• Once the creator registers his/her title, it is distributed on DLSite.com forever, unless he/she decides to terminate the distribution.
• DLSite.com will take care of marketing, sales and distributing products in total so that creator can focus on just creating his/her works.
• DLSite.com accepts products in various genre including General, R, and Mature (18+).
• There is absolutely NO registration fee.

CuriousFactory will be the exclusive agent to handle products for DLSite.com that is submitted from outside of Japan. Creators outside of Japan are required to register with CuriousFactory’s distribution service in order for their products to be listed / distributed on DLSite.com.

More details can be found at: http://www.curiousfactory.com/distribution/dlsite_distribution.php

* DLSite.com’s server and administration company is located in Japan. Therefore, the service and use of DLSite.com is governed by and construed in accordance with Japanese law.

To register your product, go visit:

http://www.curiousfactory.com/distribution/dlsite_distribution.php

About CuriousFactory
CuriousFactory is a company which specializes in the field of Japanese subculture entertainment. Besides offering various BtoB services such as Product localization / translation / PR service, CuriousFactory focuses on the development of Western community and subculture entertainment industry where the contents and trend originate from Japan.
CuriousFactory Website: http://www.curiousfactory.com/

About DLSite.com
DLsite.com is administrated by EISYS,Inc., Japan. DLsite.com was one of the first company in Japan to provide a diverse array of Doujin items such as Doujinshi, CG collection, game, novel, music, and utility tool via online. All products are available in data format and can be downloaded instantly 24/7/365.

We received this from a staff member of NarutoBuzz:

"For a previous release NarutoBuzz featured the work of another scantlation team (slighty touched up by us), we sincerly apologize for any confusion that we may have caused, we did credit the team however we apologize for not obtaining proper permission, NarutoBuzz will avoid such behavior in the future and sincerly apologize to the Scantlation Group whose work was featured. We also thank MangaUpdates for reconsidering our Ban and promise to be as Ethical as possible in the future. We have been greatly humbled by this experience and thank everyone for allowing us to further serve the Naruto Community."

As a result of this formal apology to the original scanlators, Mangaupdates will again report NarutoBuzz releases.

We have a new review for you today thanks to keiichirou!

Check it out here: Jadou Tenmou Yatan (Shounen Ai)

It has come to our attention that this group is actually stealing scans from other scanlators. The original scanlators came and complained to us. After attaining proof of this, we first attempted to email the admin of this group, but since we have not gotten a response, we have decided to not allow releases from this group any further.

We're sorry for any inconvenience. Baka-Updates does not allow stolen scanlations to be shown on the site.

-Staff

We have a new review for you today thanks to keiichirou!

Check it out here: Demian Syndrome (Romance, Shounen Ai)

Our switch had a problem which our ISP has corrected. We are sorry for the downtime.

BU Staff

lambchopsil writes: A few days ago, a release was announced on this site for the following:
F.O.X. 2 volume 1 chapter 1 by Esthétique & Vampire Knights

This is incorrect and should be the following:
F.O.X. 1 volume 2 chapter 1 by Esthétique & Vampire Knights

This mistake was due to a mislabeling by the scanlation groups involved. A replacement download with the correct labeling has been provided:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3aqr1u

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Here it is guys, the big feat. Lots of people have suggested this so I'm proud to present our own "manga list" feature. You can access it by clicking on "My Lists" in the menu.

Please remember that this feature is new, so it may not work too well, and there may be lots of bugs. Let me know here if you have problems with it or something isn't working right.

It requires a bit of a learning curve (and javascript enabled), so it may be difficult to get used to at first, but I'm hoping that everyone finds the new feature as useful as we do.

Thanks!

Update Added some more features to your public lists... under the "Public URL" box. They have to do with what is displayed to the public when someone visits your list. You will only see the "Public URL" box if you make your list public.

Update 2 By Suggestion, I have removed the "unfinished" list icon from the new releases page.

I updated the series database today. You should now be able to rate a series without commenting! This was a highly requested feat so I decided to put it in.

Here is a new (albeit late announced) review thanks to Akari.

Check it out: Nabari no Ou