an interview with Jacob.

On Kotaku.

The easy to pirate drm free part made me chuckle.

Is that Komiflo?

Legalities being what they are, I wouldn't be surprised if Jake can't say yet.

Oh it's always fun reading/listening to the retelling. Seem to learn something new each time :p I wasn't expecting the Japanese service... that's pretty awesome as well!

Fakku books on your local bookstore shelves?
Or for those who don't wanna click.

20 book releases for 2017? Let's hope this actually happens...

Doujinshi are included in this equation.

You mean physical Doujinshi or would you include Digiyal only Doujinshi in that equation?

Also would you count another Doujin Box set as 1 book or depends how many are inside?

I counted the Saitom Box as 1

Any doujin with the book tag. Digital or physical in english. That the only logical way that 20 book part of the story could work since fakku releases 10-12 books a year at best unless jacob is kicking it hard on the printers and translators for now on with more releases.

If we just go by this years releases then:

Ecchi Sketch!
Sweet Popcorn
Lust Vampire Academy
The Little Admiral's Wife is the Harbour Princess
A Kiss for the Petals 1-3
Goddess Drop
Penis lord
Little Brother Sharing
Tennis Club's Aphrodisiac Threesome
Working Fire Valk
Young Cock Party

Bold being fakku. Then it's going to be a over 20 year if we mix fakku only releases if the avg keeps on trucking.

I think they are also counting Bashful Break as a 2017 title even though the pre-order went up in 2016.

And you are right this seems like the only way possible for them to hit the 20 books a year mark.

If they just released books like normal we are never even gonna break the 15 a year mark.

Doujinshi are my favorite part of FAKKU! But it still can't beat having physical books.

But let's see maybe I am wrong, they did just move 2 more titles into the upcoming section of the Books List and those titles are unannounced...

Kotaku with the loaded questions as per usual.

Jacob handled it (and himself) incredibly well. Pretty decent interview, kotaku shit aside

As it stands right now, we're looking at exactly 20 "books" to be released in 2017. This includes your typical books and doujinshi compilations, but not individual doujinshi releases. This is assuming there are no delays, which makes it a somewhat optimistic figure. At the same time, we are currently in the middle of hiring more staff, and one of the main reasons for this is to boost the books side of the business in the next few months.

It's hard to tell right now how the next 10 months will turn out, but I believe we'll end up with a total of 15-25 releases at the end of the year, so 20 is a fair estimate.