J-Novel Club Announces Majority Stake Acquisition By Kadokawa And Partnership

This is in addition to its current partnership with North American publisher Yen Press, also partly owned by Kadokawa for physical releases of J-Novel Club titles.

J-Novel Club, the publisher founded in 2016 to bring light novels to English readers and grow the market for the popular format has announced a landmark achivement, with the majority of the company now owned by the Kadokawa Group, one of the largest publishers and distributors of light novels and related content in Japan.

Since I founded J-Novel Club five years ago, the company has grown from essentially a one-man operation to publishing over 250 titles a year.