The business is set to use A.I. to find where the demand is and get books there as fast as possible and “optimize the entire publishing distribution”.
The biggest names in publishing in Japan, Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha, have announced that they will be teaming up with trading company Marubeni to start a new publisher-driven distribution business.
While Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha are mostly known for manga in the western world, in Japan these three companies, as well as Kadokawa control the most of the publishing business.