Weekly Shonen Jump Debuts on ComiXology and Amazon
August 31st, 2015 – New York, NY – Viz Media, Comixology and Amazon announced today the debut of Weekly Shonen Jump across the Comixology platform as well as Amazon's Kindle Store. The English language digital manga magazine comes out weekly and is published simultaneously with the print version in Japan. This debut gives Comixology and Kindle fans a taste of the latest manga from Japan, on the same day, now accessible to English speakers across North America, the U.K., Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Today's magazine contains chapters of such hit ongoing manga series as Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma.
"Weekly Shonen Jump is a fan favorite magazine where emerging and long-running hit manga series are shown to the world first," says Andy Nakatani, Editor-In-Chief of Weekly Shonen Jump, "We're excited to expand the readership of this magazine to the Comixology and Kindle audience."
"It's amazing we live in an age where it's possible for fans to read manga in English the same day as appears in Japan," said Chip Mosher, Comixology VP of Communications & Marketing, "This is why we're thrilled to share Weekly Shonen Jump on Comixology and Kindle as we're now able to give fans access to the latest and greatest manga around."
Weekly Shonen Jump is published digitally each week by Viz Media and features the latest installments of some of the world's most popular manga series released to English readers across North America, the U.K., Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand on the same day as the magazine's general print release in Japan. Currently featured series include Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.
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With over 75,000 comics, graphic novels and manga from more than 75 publishers, Comixology offers the widest selection of digital comics in the world. Comixology's immense catalog and cinematic Guided View reading experience make it the Best Digital platform for comics worldwide.
About Viz Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Viz Media distributes, markets and licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, echo are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
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