DADAN Begins Pre-Registration for Manga Typesetting BPO Service Utilizing DEDEN
DADAN Inc. has started accepting pre-registrations for its manga typesetting BPO service, which leverages the cloud tool "DEDEN." This service aims to help publishers reduce typesetting costs by over 50% and streamline their production workflows.
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DADAN Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Keita Nakamura; a wholly-owned subsidiary of GREE Holdings Inc., hereinafter "DADAN") has begun accepting pre-registrations for its manga typesetting BPO service, which utilizes the cloud tool "DEDEN."
Through DEDEN, DADAN has previously supported the efficiency and cost reduction of operations related to e-book production, management, and delivery. With this new service, DADAN expands its scope to include the typesetting process, aiming to further alleviate the burden on publishers' production sites.
This service supports the reduction of typesetting costs and the man-hours required by editorial departments for checking and corrections, without significantly altering existing production workflows for typesetting tasks that routinely occur at publishing companies and editorial production houses. By designing pricing according to production volume and operational flow, the service aims to achieve a cost reduction of over 50% compared to traditional typesetting outsourcing fees.
Moving forward, DADAN will deepen its collaboration with DEDEN's existing features, including file management, EPUB production, and translation/localization support, to strengthen a seamless support system from typesetting to e-book production and international expansion.
■ Background — Typesetting is a "Necessary but Heavy" Task
Typesetting (the composition of dialogue within speech bubbles in manga manuscripts) is an indispensable process for delivering manga to readers. However, outsourcing costs tend to accumulate with the number of production pages, posing a structural burden for publishers and editorial departments that continuously produce and publish works.
Furthermore, the typesetting process involves coordination among multiple stakeholders such as production companies, printing companies, and external contractors, leading to communication tasks like creating instructions, checking, sending back for revisions, and requesting corrections, which impose a certain workload on editorial departments.
In recent years, with the advancement of digitalization and multilingualization, operations surrounding typesetting have become even more complex, including managing separate data for print and digital, obtaining print data for international expansion, and supporting multilingual version production.
Efforts to streamline the typesetting process using AI and systems have been progressing in various ways recently. However, production systems and outsourcing flows differ among publishers, and the introduction and establishment of new tools come with a certain operational burden.
Against this backdrop, DADAN will launch a BPO service that leverages the cloud tool "DEDEN," where DADAN takes on the typesetting work itself, rather than requiring publishers to build new operational systems.
■ Service Features
DADAN's manga typesetting BPO service is a comprehensive outsourcing service for the typesetting process, utilizing the cloud tool "DEDEN."
The main features are as follows:
1. Can be introduced in a manner similar to existing production workflows
Similar to current typesetting orders, progress can be made simply by sending names, manuscripts, and instructions. Publishers do not need to establish new operational systems and can introduce the service in a way that closely aligns with their existing production workflows.
While supporting progress through traditional instruction sheets, emails, and data transfers, publishers who wish can utilize DEDEN's checking and supervision functions to simplify correction instructions and review tasks.
2. Supports continuous reduction of typesetting costs
The service supports continuous reduction of typesetting costs through pricing designed according to production volume and operational flow. For publishers with a large annual number of production pages, DADAN is considering pricing designed to achieve a cost reduction of over 50% compared to traditional typesetting outsourcing fees.
Initially, individual estimates will be provided based on each publisher's production volume and operational flow, and DADAN will work towards continuous cost compression.
3. Streamlines checking and correction communication
In the typesetting process, multiple rounds of communication such as manuscript checking, sending back for revisions, requesting corrections, and re-checking can occur.
With this service, DADAN not only undertakes the typesetting work but also utilizes DEDEN's checking and supervision functions to enable editors to directly add comments and correction instructions to the manuscript. This aims to reduce the time spent on back-and-forth emails, instruction sheets, and repeated revisions.
Note that the use of DEDEN's checking function is not mandatory, and the service can also accommodate operations similar to traditional methods.
4. Stable quality combining AI assistance and operator support
DADAN is developing functions to support the efficiency of the typesetting process, such as AI-driven automatic font and layout suggestions. By combining this with finishing and checking by skilled operators, DADAN ensures quality control that considers the expression and readability unique to each work.
While maintaining delivery times aligned with traditional production schedules, the combination of AI assistance and operator support aims for stable quality and efficient progress.
5. End-to-end support from EPUB production to translation and international expansion
This service provides high-resolution print data.
Through DEDEN, DADAN has previously supported the efficiency and cost reduction of operations related to e-book production, management, and delivery. With this new service, DADAN expands its scope to include the typesetting process, aiming to further alleviate the burden on publishers' production sites.
This service supports the reduction of typesetting costs and the man-hours required by editorial departments for checking and corrections, without significantly altering existing production workflows for typesetting tasks that routinely occur at publishing companies and editorial production houses. By designing pricing according to production volume and operational flow, the service aims to achieve a cost reduction of over 50% compared to traditional typesetting outsourcing fees.
Moving forward, DADAN will deepen its collaboration with DEDEN's existing features, including file management, EPUB production, and translation/localization support, to strengthen a seamless support system from typesetting to e-book production and international expansion.
■ Background — Typesetting is a "Necessary but Heavy" Task
Typesetting (the composition of dialogue within speech bubbles in manga manuscripts) is an indispensable process for delivering manga to readers. However, outsourcing costs tend to accumulate with the number of production pages, posing a structural burden for publishers and editorial departments that continuously produce and publish works.
Furthermore, the typesetting process involves coordination among multiple stakeholders such as production companies, printing companies, and external contractors, leading to communication tasks like creating instructions, checking, sending back for revisions, and requesting corrections, which impose a certain workload on editorial departments.
In recent years, with the advancement of digitalization and multilingualization, operations surrounding typesetting have become even more complex, including managing separate data for print and digital, obtaining print data for international expansion, and supporting multilingual version production.
Efforts to streamline the typesetting process using AI and systems have been progressing in various ways recently. However, production systems and outsourcing flows differ among publishers, and the introduction and establishment of new tools come with a certain operational burden.
Against this backdrop, DADAN will launch a BPO service that leverages the cloud tool "DEDEN," where DADAN takes on the typesetting work itself, rather than requiring publishers to build new operational systems.
■ Service Features
DADAN's manga typesetting BPO service is a comprehensive outsourcing service for the typesetting process, utilizing the cloud tool "DEDEN."
The main features are as follows:
1. Can be introduced in a manner similar to existing production workflows
Similar to current typesetting orders, progress can be made simply by sending names, manuscripts, and instructions. Publishers do not need to establish new operational systems and can introduce the service in a way that closely aligns with their existing production workflows.
While supporting progress through traditional instruction sheets, emails, and data transfers, publishers who wish can utilize DEDEN's checking and supervision functions to simplify correction instructions and review tasks.
2. Supports continuous reduction of typesetting costs
The service supports continuous reduction of typesetting costs through pricing designed according to production volume and operational flow. For publishers with a large annual number of production pages, DADAN is considering pricing designed to achieve a cost reduction of over 50% compared to traditional typesetting outsourcing fees.
Initially, individual estimates will be provided based on each publisher's production volume and operational flow, and DADAN will work towards continuous cost compression.
3. Streamlines checking and correction communication
In the typesetting process, multiple rounds of communication such as manuscript checking, sending back for revisions, requesting corrections, and re-checking can occur.
With this service, DADAN not only undertakes the typesetting work but also utilizes DEDEN's checking and supervision functions to enable editors to directly add comments and correction instructions to the manuscript. This aims to reduce the time spent on back-and-forth emails, instruction sheets, and repeated revisions.
Note that the use of DEDEN's checking function is not mandatory, and the service can also accommodate operations similar to traditional methods.
4. Stable quality combining AI assistance and operator support
DADAN is developing functions to support the efficiency of the typesetting process, such as AI-driven automatic font and layout suggestions. By combining this with finishing and checking by skilled operators, DADAN ensures quality control that considers the expression and readability unique to each work.
While maintaining delivery times aligned with traditional production schedules, the combination of AI assistance and operator support aims for stable quality and efficient progress.
5. End-to-end support from EPUB production to translation and international expansion
This service provides high-resolution print data.