eBook Distribution Business
eBook Distribution Business is our mainstay business that supports the distribution of eBooks as the largest eBook distributor in Japan and contributes to the reduction of distribution energy use.
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STRATEGIC INVESTMENT BUSINESSES
The Company aims to establish a second earning pillar through the development of the “Imprint Business,” “Global Business,” “IP Solutions Business,” and “FanTop Business” on the basis of the trust we have built with the industry through our core eBook Distribution Business.
Imprint Business
The publishing company NIHONBUNGEISHA Co., Ltd. is responsible for creating original works within our group, producing prominent content such as manga. In addition, through mutual collaboration with various companies, they promote media mix initiatives, including adaptations into films and TV dramas.
NIHONBUNGEISHA Co., Ltd.
Affiliated Companies
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- NIHONBUNGEISHA Co., Ltd.
- Publishing and sales of books and magazines, including the men's manga magazine “Weekly Manga Goraku”.
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- JIVE Ltd.
- Distribution of paper books.
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- ARTRA ENTERTAINMENT Inc.
- Provision of digital comic coloring and comic production support services.
Global Business
Our overseas group companies provide SaaS-based services to support DX (digital transformation) for publishers, including ERP tools for integrated management and analysis of publishing data, web marketing tools for books, and tools for building publishers’ own e-commerce websites, mainly for European and U.S. publishers, including the five major U.S. publishers. Furthermore, Media Do International, Inc. provides translation services for Japanese works and distribution business to overseas eBook retailers.
Media Do International
Firebrand / Supadü / Netgalley
Service Introduction
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- Firebrand
- Providing ERP tools to centrally manage the entire publishing workflow from editing, production, marketing, and PR to sales management.
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- NetGalley
- Providing web marketing tools for books that allows users to read pre-release manuscripts (galley) of the book in digital format and post reviews.
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- Supadü
- Providing “Supafolio,” a metadata management platform for publishers that enables them to easily and inexpensively build e-commerce websites that can directly sell their own books (paper and electronic) linked to bibliographic information.
IP Solution Business
We provide a variety of services that contribute to solving issues surrounding the publishing industry, such as “flier,” a book summary service that allows users to read a book in 10 minutes (Group company: Flier Inc.), “OverDrive,” a digital library service for local governments, schools and businesses in Japan (provided by OverDrive, Inc. of the United States), and “Accessible Library,” a digital library service for
people with disabilities specializing in voice reading of eBooks.
Outline of flier services
Digital Library Service Overview
Service Introduction
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- flier
- A time-saving reading service that allows users to read a book in 10 minutes
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- OverDrive
- Digital library service for domestic municipalities, schools, and companies
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- Accessible Library
- Digital library service for people with disabilities
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- PUBFUN
- POD (print-on-demand) services for corporate and individual customers
FanTop Business
We develop and operate FanTop, an NFT marketplace where users can buy, sell, and own legitimate digital goods with asset value, utilizing NFT (Non-Fungible Token) that are tamper-proof and impossible to duplicate.
FanTop is differentiated from traditional markets that speculatively trade one-of-a-kind NFTs such as art, and specializes in non-speculative content, with a business model that is based on revenue distribution to rights holders.
We are also promoting initiatives such as the digital NFT benefits which adds value to publications and other products.
Service Overview of FanTop
FanTop is a proprietary NFT marketplace developed and operated by MEDIA DO. The total number of copies issued of publications with NFT digital benefits, which NFT digital content is attached to paper books, has exceeded 2.46 million.*
- Business model based on royalty distribution, specializing in digital content not for speculative purposes
- Users can acquire NFT digital content (digital items, music/sound, video, eBooks, etc.) by scanning the QR code attached to the paper book
- The acquired NFT digital content comeswith ownership rights, so it can be collected and viewed, and shared, transferred, and bought or sold among users (secondary and subsequent trading)
* Figures cumulative for the period from October 2021 to June 30, 2024
Service Introduction
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- FANTOP
- NFT marketplace developed and operated by MEDIA DO. FanTop is an NFT marketplace where users can collect and appreciate NFT digital goods through the application, and enjoy trading and transferring goods among fans.
