#Publishing & Bookstores

MARVEL | KADOKAWA plans a Shibuya-set Spider-Man manga for 2026, detailed the day Shueisha's 14 Marvel volumes left e-book stores. The story goes back to a 1978 giant robot.

Seven in ten Japanese bookstore companies were profitable in fiscal 2025, but only 13.4% grew both sales and profit, on a 0.6% margin. What lifted the numbers, and why bookshops are multiplying in the US and Britain.