hughjazz44 wrote...
I basically never post in the forum, but I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents:
I'm 100% satisfied with Fakku's direction. I own many of their books, and am VERY happy to have fully uncensored books at all! Fakku isn't really that old. Their content grows everyday, and they will inevitably have something that covers everyone's tastes. And hopefully, as Fakku becomes more successful, artists in Japan will take notice and begin producing content with international audiences in mind. i.e. more "extreme" content that wouldn't sell in Japan, but WOULD sell everywhere else.
I just hope that, as time progesses, Fakku doesn't start getting greedy. I greatly appreciate having downloadable PDFs so I can store a backup. I'd hate for Fakku to do things like add DRM and other anti-consumer measures.
Anyway, if any of you admins are reading, you have at least one satisfied customer!
Thank you 🙠It means a lot to me, and all of the staff, to see users speak up in support of what we are doing.
RozenLetter wrote...
You say selective but it's been 5 years and your books have yet to break the top 10 in your store which leads me to believe that well the team's ability to select and publish books is bad.
What does this mean? Not only are our books popular on our own store, but we also sell them in actual retail bookstores, on Amazon, and through many other digital outlets. Of the top 24 best selling items on our store (of all time),
22 of them are books. Additionally, knowing the industry, I can tell you that our hentai books outsell even many traditional manga you find at Barnes & Noble and other big box retailers.
To quote a post from you about FAKKU going legit,
posted back in 2016 almost 4 years ago:
RozenLetter wrote...
Going into this i don't see any way Fakku will survive, it just can't there is literally so little support and so many bad decisions that its likely the site will only be up for a couple of months.
I think the problem might be
you,
not what we are doing.
I am more than satisfied with how we've been balancing the different genres and tags we include in our releases. Instead of buying a book,
sign up for a subscription. There's some dark stuff on FAKKU from the magazines, things even I've been uncomfortable reading (and I've seen it all). When we asked the community to pick our next book from Kill Time Communication,
they overwhelming voted for a vanilla book, almost 2/1 over the second place entry in a poll designed to have 2 controversial titles and 2 non-controversial titles. Even after that, I personally chose one of the losing controversial titles, PANDRA, to placate users who didn't have their vote chosen as the winner (and just because I love that book). By the way the winner of that poll,
My Bride is the Demon Lord!?, is currently our best selling book of the year.
Lo and behold, PANDRA was the best selling hentai manga on Amazon the week it came out.
I mean, we're even the first (and only) company to officially publish
ero-guro in English. That book contains cannibalism and snuff! Not to mention our books are banned in several countries around the world due to their aforementioned controversial (non-vanilla) content.
I don't buy your complaints, and I don't think you are making them with a good conscience.