Japan Airlines To Start The World’s First In-Flight e-Comic Next Spring
Posted on December 10th, 2011 by Akky Akimoto
Japan’s national carrier Japan Airlines(JAL) announced the world’s first digital manga(Japanese comic) service “Sky Manga” on board with one of the nation’s largest publisher Shogakukan and digital publishing company eBook Initiative Japan [J]. The new service will be a part of new Boeing 787 debut on JAL.
The service will start from March 2012, 90 comics in total, the first to the third series of each 30 manga-s supplied by Shogakukan. The manga-s are changed each couple of months. The first selection includes following popular comics series (click to Amazon Japan),
Major―Dramatic baseball comic (1)
Akky Akimoto
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