San Diego Comic-Con 2010

Yen Press

At this point the was opened up to questions, several of which were about clarifications to the subscription system. Magazine issues can currently only be purchased month-to-month on Paypal and cannot be bought in blocks. In addition, access to the magazine will be based on s and can be viewed from multiple machines. Content-wise, the digital edition will also keep the print magazine's extras, like editor sidebars and feature articles. Going forward, the company hopes to adapt the web-based magazine to electronic reader devices as well; Yen is primarily optimizing it for the iPad first (which means it does not run on Flash), and from there will port the magazine onto other platforms.

Regarding current Yen Press titles, there are no "license rescues" planned for the catalog of recently-shutdown BL-themed titles, to which Hassler responded that such a distinction would "ghetto-ize" those titles and is therefore unnecessary.

After the question-and-answer session, Free Books were given out to attendees as a prize. Yishan Li, artist of Yen's graphic novel adaptation of The Clique, also made a guest appearance at the to sign autographs for fans of the series.