Kodansha sales and e-book business rights outperform paper
出版大手の講談社が19日に発表する通期決算で、電子書籍と権利ビジネスを合わせた売り上げが、紙の出版物を初めて上回ることがわかった。
On the 19th, the major publishing company Kodansha announced in their full-year financial results, that for the first time the financial earnings of their electronic books and business rights outperformed their paper publications.
2019年12月から20年11月の講談社の売り上げ約1449億円のうち、紙の雑誌と書籍が約635億円で前年比で1・2%減、電子書籍は約532億円で19・4%増えた。「転生したらスライムだった件」「進撃の巨人」などのヒット漫画が引き続き人気なうえ、コロナ禍で巣ごもり需要が高まったことも要因とみられる。漫画を元にしたアニメ化やゲーム化などに伴う権利ビジネスによる収入は約170億円で、特に海外向けは前年より3割ほど増えた。
From December of 2019 until November of 2020, of the 144.9 billion yen in Kodansha sales, paper magazines and book sales netted only 63.5 billion yen which is about a 1.2% decrease, while e-books sales reached 53.2 billion yen which is a 19.4 percent increase. Hit manga such as “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” and “Attack on Titan” continued to remain popular and then there is the stay-at-home order due to the Coronavirus crisis which both seems to have contributed to the change. About 17 billion yen in revenue was earned from business rights in manga adaptations such as anime, games, etc., and in particular, overseas-focused content which increased by about 30% from the previous year.
講談社全体で売り上げは前年比6・7%増、当期純利益は同36億円増の約108億円だった。
Kodansha’s overall sales have increased by 6.7% from last year, and it’s net income for the year increased 3.6 billion yen which overall is about 10.8 billion yen.
出版界全体では、出版科学研究所によると、20年の電子出版の市場規模は3931億円で、前年比28%増。16年からほぼ倍増し、紙と合わせた市場全体の4分の1近くを占めるほどになった。うち87%が電子コミックで、講談社など漫画に強い大手では電子出版の割合がより高くなっている。一方、紙の市場は16年連続で減少している。（滝沢文那）
According to the Institute of Publishing Science, in the last 20 years, the electronic publishing world as a whole has a market size of 393.1 billion yen, which is an increase of 28% from the previous year. In the last 16 years, it has nearly doubled, which accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire market for paper. Among these, 87% are electronic comics, and in major manga publishing companies such as Kodansha, electronic publishing has become significantly higher in percentage. Meanwhile, the paper market has been declining for the past 16 consecutive years. (Fumina Takizawa)
ORIGINAL: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP2L5TT0P2LUCVL007.html
[One of my translated articles (for practice)]