Nanaten

Title: Oretachi no Party wa Machigatteiru (Our Party is Wrong)

Chapter: 01

Mangaka: NSHI

Language: English

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Gender Bender, Adventure, Action.

Rating: PG

Summary:  Four brave warriors faced the Demon King. When they were about to kill him, however, the Demon King used his remaining strength to cast a terrible curse on them and separate them. Now, the curse has taken effect. The warrior’s body has returned to that of his childhood self, the knight’s sexual orientation has changed and he’s become attracted to every man he encounters, the black mage’s gender shifted and he’s now a girl, and the white mage has disappeared. Can they reunite and break the curse? Or will they remain like that for the rest of their lives?

Download: Mediafire

Read Online: Mangadex

New series! We hope you enjoy reading this comedy about four heroes on a journey to break an evil curse 

Yes, we are aware of the situation. We are currently deciding what we are we’re going to do since there are a few alternatives we could do. However, we are currently waiting a little more to see our final options. Once we figured out what we will do, announcements will be posted on Tumblr, discord, and our facebook, therefore please be on the lookout.

As you may know “Halyosy” for his chorus work like “Connecting” and “Blessing”, may also know his other chorus work “Painter” (I love this song more than the other two). (P.s Im deleting the spring shine project seems to not make sense at all.)

So while I was scrolling through youtube looking at others covers, I didnt see any world edition covers for them and im sitting here like “What?” either that or i must have passed by it. I thought it was crazy how painter doesnt have a world edition so I thought be the first (ish??) to make one.

Plus, I also believe the song kinda bring people together by the use of art, everyone smiling and enjoying each other company through painting each othe stories.

Only problem I dont have any people to join it

So Im asking/recruiting people who knows different language that sing also.

Same thing require for people who are joining

Must have a good mic on hand (Clear Vocal and sounding)

Sing the lyrics clearly (This is a long project so on some days we’ll practice the song together when we get time)

Willing to work with others (Cant have a group where we can not cooperate with each other. Thats a big ol NO! for me)

STAFF WANTED

Illustration 

Video/Animation

Mixing

Also, Arrangment (Since this going to be muitple languages so I might need help arranging them for those who are joining)

Questions or concern:

Tweet me: @ClearJoki

Send a message to me on Tumblr

or Find me on Discord: JokiDoki#4838

Very recently, Amazon made a small, barely noticeable tweak to the way it sells books.  And that little tweak has publishers very, very worried.

The change has to do with what Amazon calls the “Buy Box.”  That’s the little box on the right-hand side of Amazon product pages that lets you buy stuff through the company’s massive retail enterprise. It looks like this:

It used to be that when you were shopping for a new copy of a book and clicked “Add to Cart,” you were buying the book from Amazon itself.  Amazon, in turn, had bought the book from its publisher or its publisher’s wholesalers, just like if you went to any other bookstore selling new copies of books.  There was a clear supply chain that sent your money directly into the pockets of the people who wrote and published the book you were buying.

But now, reports the Huffington Post, that’s no longer the default scenario.  Now you might be buying the book from Amazon, or you might be buying it from a third-party seller.  And there’s no guarantee that if the latter is true, said third-party seller bought the book from the publisher.  In fact, it’s most likely they didn’t.

Which means the publisher might not be getting paid.  And, by extension, neither is the author.

Understandably, both publishers and authors are deeply unhappy about this change.

Who gets to be the default seller in the Buy Box?

Amazon calls the default seller in the Buy Box — the one who gets the business when a customer clicks “Add to Cart” without looking for more options — the “Buy Box winner.”  It uses an algorithm to choose a Buy Box winner for each product it sells, prioritizing sellers who offer low prices, use Amazon Prime, have good customer feedback, and keep their items in stock.  It also requires that items sold by its Buy Box winners be new, not used, and only approved sellers may compete for the Buy Box.  Sometimes Amazon itself wins the Box, and sometimes third-party sellers do.

When I asked Amazon about winning the Buy Box with regard to books, a company spokesperson sent me this statement and requested it be printed in full:

We have listed and sold books, both new and used, from third party sellers for many years.  The recent changes allow sellers of new books to be the “featured offer” on a book’s detail page, which means that our bookstore now works like the rest of Amazon, where third party sellers compete with Amazon for the sale of new items.  Only offers for new books are eligible to be featured. 

However, the Authors Guild points out that “Amazon does not sell or stream copies of movies and television programs that are distributed by anyone other than the authorized distributor,” so the bookstore isn’t working exactly like the rest of Amazon.  Update: After this story was first published, an Amazon spokesperson contacted Vox to refute the Authors Guild’s statement, noting that Amazon does allow third-party sellers to win the Buy Box for “other physical media categories such as DVD’s and CD’s, as well as all other categories on Amazon” but allowing that “digital content, including ebooks, video, and music are all licensed directly from the rights holder.”

If the author and publisher aren’t making money from book sales on Amazon, who is?

Here’s what happens to your money when you buy a book from Amazon itself: A certain percentage of the cost goes to the publisher.  (Amazon’s terms vary from publisher to publisher, but that share is usually around 60 percent.)  The publisher uses that money to pay the author, cover its expenses, and contribute to its profit margins.  Amazon pockets the remaining 40 percent for its own purposes.

Here’s what happens to your money when you buy a book through Amazon but from a third-party seller: Amazon gets 15 percent of the total sales price, including shipping, plus a flat rate of $1.85 per item.  The rest goes to the third-party seller.  Not a single cent goes to the publisher, which means nothing goes to the author — but Amazon has made a profit either way, and without having to shoulder the expense of shipping and warehousing.

Why aren’t third-party sellers paying publishers?

Amazon’s third-party sellers have to offer new books, not used ones, but in many cases they don’t seem to have bought their books from publishers.  No one is quite sure where their books come from, including, it seems, Amazon itself.  The industry publication Publishers Lunch reports that Amazon third-party sellers who worry about breaking the rules have reassured one another that they’re not doing anything wrong by citing the fact that Amazon’s guidelines “as always, [say] nothing about provenance, nothing about purchasing through distribution.”  It doesn’t matter, in other words, where the books come from, so long as they are new, unmarked, and sold cheaply.

A representative I spoke to from one of the big five publishers theorized that third-party sellers might be selling some of the free promotional copies that publishers routinely send out to critics and bloggers just before a book is published — not the galleys, which are clearly marked “not for resale,” but the free promotional copies of the finished book, which have no such marking on their covers and often end up sold to bookstores like the Strand.  Others have suggested that they might be buying books with minor cosmetic damage from warehouses, just damaged enough to be discounted but not so damaged that Amazon stops considering them “new.”

Penguin Random House has confirmed on more than one occasion that it sent a series of emails to third-party sellers inquiring as to where and how they acquired the Penguin Random House books they’re selling, and says it shared the results with Amazon.  Amazon, for its part, has assured the industry that it is committed to “removing bad actors.“

Hey, all I see here is that I get easy and convenient access to cheap books.  How is this hurting me as a customer?

For Amazon’s customers, this policy change has a few downsides:

1. If the Buy Box winner for a book is out of stock, it will look to most customers as though the book is out of stock everywhere.  You’ll have to click through several buttons to get to a list of all the sellers on Amazon that carry the book and find one that’s still stocking it.  Amazon’s algorithm is weighted toward sellers that are known to keep their books in stock, ostensibly to avoid this very inconvenience — but judging from the frantic state of Book Twitter, a number of books appear to have already fallen into this trap, particularly debuts.

Contrary to appearances, new copies of @AdriAnneMS and @begemotike’s SHADOW RUN are still in stock on Amazon!

— Kirsten Carleton (@kirstencarleton) May 5, 2017

In many cases, Amazon has eventually updated the Buy Box winner to replace the out-of-stock third-party sellers, but it often takes days for change to go through. 

Just so you know, you guys, SECRETS, LIES, AND SCANDALS is NOT out of print. THIS is happening. :( https://t.co/16lYFocPkB

— Amanda K. Morgan (@AmandaKMorgan) May 6, 2017

2. This policy makes it harder for publishers to make money.  That makes them less likely to publish risky books.  As Authors Guild president Mary Rasenberger told the New Republic, “The connection that people fail to make is that if publishers have less money, then they have less to invest.  That means they can’t afford to take risks on the kinds of challenging books they’ve published for centuries.”

Exciting, artistically interesting new books are not guaranteed moneymakers.  Well-respected middlebrow books are also not guaranteed moneymakers.  Man Booker Prize nominees routinely sell as few as 3,000 copies.   Right now publishers can afford to subsidize a few prestige titles every year with the profits they make on the types of books that generally do sell well — erotica that made a big splash when it was self-published, pulpy thrillers from established authors, and so on.

When publishers make less money, they have less money to spend on interesting, valuable books that are unlikely to make a profit.   That means those books are exponentially less likely to ever make their way to you, the reader.

3. This policy is part of Amazon’s ongoing, years-long quest to drive down the price of books.  If Amazon succeeds, fewer people will be able to make their living as writers.  That means fewer and worse books will make it to the marketplace.

Amazon routinely takes a loss on its book sales, often charging customers less per book than it pays publishers and swallowing the difference.  It’s a priority for the company to be your preferred bookseller, even if it has to take a hit; its business model can accommodate the loss, because it generally makes up the extra dollars on the last-minute impulse buys customers toss into their shopping carts.  Meanwhile, on the e-book side of things, Amazon’s low prices help drive sales of its Kindle.  But that also means it has set certain customer expectations: Many Amazon customers now believe that books should be cheap — cheaper to buy than they are to make.

It is already punishingly rare for writers to make a living wage from their books.  As Amazon drives down the cost of books, it will become ever more rare.   That means fewer people will be able to invest the time and effort it takes into becoming a writer, which means a lot of talented writers — especially working-class writers and writers of color — will go unheard.  All of which means that you, the reader, will be missing out on some excellent potential books.

The third and final part of my tutorial for how to purchase digital manga through eBookJapan.  This tutorial assumes you have already made an account and are familiar with the basic sections of the site such as your Bookshelf and searching.  If not, please read the first two parts first:

Part 1: Registration Part 2: Login and Navigation

In this part I’ll go through how to purchase and read a book from the site using a credit card.

1. We’re starting off where we left off in Part 2 where we have searched for a book and are on its info page.  For this example, since I’m using a throwaway account to simulate going through everything for the first time but don’t actually want to buy anything using it, I’m selecting a 0 yen book.

2. If you’re only buying the one item, you can press “Buy Now” which will take you directly to step 4.  Otherwise press “Add to Cart”.

3. The “Add to Cart” button will change to “Proceed to Cart”.  You can click that button to go to your cart, or repeat the process on other books and press the “Shopping Cart” icon at the top of the screen when you’re done.

4. This is the left hand side of your cart review page.  Because I’m using a free item as an example, everything is 0, but for real purchases it will show the price and point values of the selected items.  If you want to remove something from the cart, check its check box and press “Remove”.

5. The right hand side of the the cart review page.  When you’re ready to buy your items, press “Continue with Purchase”.

6. Depending on how long it’s been since you logged in, you may be prompted to confirm your password before proceeding to the next screen.

7. On the next page you will be prompted to enter your credit card information, with the option to save the card for future purchases so you don’t have to enter the information again.  Accepts the credit cards whose logos are shown.  There are other purchase options below this that are only valid in Japan such as Rakuten Bank and bank transfers, so I didn’t list them.

8. On the right hand side of the same page is the order placement button and purchase review, and suddenly my free item costs money?  No, actually I just had to select a different book because this screen didn’t show up for free items. :P

When you’re all set, press “Place Order”.

9. You’ll get taken through a splash screen while your order processes, then end up on this page with the option to read your new book now or open your bookshelf.  There is an eBookJapan app called ebiReader for Android that you can download through the Google Play store, but since I don’t use it much I can’t really make a tutorial for that part.

Just as a note, sometimes when I click the “Read Now” button from this screen, it gives me an error, but opening the book from my Bookshelf works fine.  So, let’s go to the Bookshelf.

10. Hey, there’s my new book (the free one)!  Click on it to open it in the browser reader.

11. You can click on the arrow button at the lower right to make the sidebar go away.  Click on the right or left sides of the pages to turn the pages left or right.

12. If you click on the center of the open page (when the cursor is not a finger), you can open the info bar that allows you to skip to a certain page or zoom in.  Clicking the center of the page again removes this bar.

Part 2 of my tutorial on how to buy digital manga through eBookJapan.  This tutorial assumes you have already made an account on the site.  If you have not, please read Part 1 first.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to log in and point out the most relevant sections of the website.

1. Browse to http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/.

2. This time, click “Login”.  If you have just come from registering, you will already be logged in and can skip to Step 4.

3. Enter the e-mail address and password you used for registration.  If you don’t want the site to keep you logged in after you leave, check the checkbox, then press the green “Login” button.

4. Once logged in, your menu options at the top right will change to a smiley face that says “My Page” and a bookshelf link, and your nickname that you registered with will appear at the top right.

5. Your menu options have also changed slightly under your “My Page”.  Click on “My Page TOP” to go to your dashboard.

6. Here is the menu on the left side of your dashboard.

7. Here is the front of your dashboard.  Points are earned by purchasing books and can then be redeemed towards the purchase price of other books before they expire.  You typically get 1 point per 100 yen spent and each point applied to a purchase reduces it by 1 yen.

8. The bottom of your dashboard shows any notifications you have set and recently viewed titles.  I’m not going to go into setting notifications in this tutorial.

9. Now go back up to your top menu and click on your Bookshelf

10. Your bookshelf contains all the books you have in your account.  When you create an account, you are given a few free books that appear in your inventory automatically.

Now back out of your bookshelf and return to the homepage.

11. The search bar is at the top of the page.  Here, you’re going to have to put the Japanese title or author name that you’re looking for.  You can usually get this off a Wiki page.  Press the green button to search.

12.  In this example I searched for “Noragami” (ノラガミ). This gives a manageable 22 results, but if you search for a manga magazine like “Monthly Shounen Magazine” (月刊少年マガジン), you’re going to get thousands of results that include everything that has ever been published in that magazine.  And the default sort order is by “Best Sellers”, which is not helpful if you’re looking for the latest release.

To the right are search filters which I can’t really break down in general because they’re based on the contents of the current search.  But if you scroll down, there’s two sets of filter options on the side.  The bottom one is more generic:

Here, it’s helpful to sort by “newest first” if you’re looking for a new release.

13. Click on the cover image of a book to be taken to its page.  On the right are your options.

Here you can buy the book immediately, add it to your cart, read a sample, or add the title or author to your watchlists.

As you may know “Halyosy” for his chorus work like “Connecting” and “Blessing”, may also know his other chorus work “Painter” (I love this song more than the other two). (P.s Im deleting the spring shine project seems to not make sense at all.)

So while I was scrolling through youtube looking at others covers, I didnt see any world edition covers for them and im sitting here like “What?” either that or i must have passed by it. I thought it was crazy how painter doesnt have a world edition so I thought be the first (ish??) to make one.

Plus, I also believe the song kinda bring people together by the use of art, everyone smiling and enjoying each other company through painting each othe stories.

Only problem I dont have any people to join it

So Im asking/recruiting people who knows different language that sing also.

Same thing require for people who are joining

Must have a good mic on hand (Clear Vocal and sounding)

Sing the lyrics clearly (This is a long project so on some days we’ll practice the song together when we get time)

Willing to work with others (Cant have a group where we can not cooperate with each other. Thats a big ol NO! for me)

STAFF WANTED

Illustration 

Video/Animation

Mixing

Also, Arrangment (Since this going to be muitple languages so I might need help arranging them for those who are joining)

Questions or concern:

Tweet me: @ClearJoki

Send a message to me on Tumblr

or Find me on Discord: JokiDoki#4838

#BlazeIt: Every time a character from Baccano! was set on fire.

idk about you guys but I think this is the best video to ever exist