Apple Launches Webtoon Comics Publisher For Apple Books App webtoon apple kenaz kenaz_official AppleBooks Apple
to publish webtoons, vertically scrolling comics made famous by fellow South Korean publisher Webtoon, formerly LINE Webtoon, the most-read comic book publisher in the world. Initially rolled out in Japan in April, this will now expand to the fifty other countries in which the Apple Books app is available and will launch in North America shortly. The deal, as it stands, is for three years.
Bleeding Cool has also been made aware of other players in the field looking to launch a Western-themed webtoon publisher, this seems to be a half-way house between the two.flew to Seoul to discuss the Kenaz deal for three days before making the deal. And notes that the Apple Books app has not had the kind of attention or deals that the likes of Apple Music and Apple TV have had.
While Woody Lee believes that Apple likely chose Kenaz over bigger players like Naver and Kakao to ensure access to original content without any conflicts over distribution and that he expects roughly 30% of Kenaz's webtoons to be first published via Apple Books. Kenaz currently published webtoons from around 140 authors and is valued at $65 million, and plans to go public next year. This deal may well help that.
Upcoming projects from Kenaz and Apple Books will include a new version of the movie Gladiator written by its screenwriter
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