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Inkblazers.com (formerly MangaMagazine.net) was an international comic platform helping to monetize webcomics and manga.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Making a Living in Manga : Part 5 5 Ideas for Fixing America's Manga-Making Economy )〕 The company had offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Bangkok, Thailand. It was founded in 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MangaMagazine CrunchBase Profile )〕 by Victor Chu and Bancha Dhammarungruang, and received $1 million in seed funding.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Harvard Alum Plans on ‘Disrupting’ the Comic Book Publishing World )〕 Inkblazers.com supported artists via paid subscription, merchandise sales, and ads sales. It also offered free online comic and manga hosting without requiring artists to give up rights to their works.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MangaMagazine.Net Aims to Pay Contributors to Provide Free Comics Online » Comics Worth Reading )〕 In an interview, co-founder Victor Chu said that the company aimed to provide the technology behind online comics publishing, in terms of hosting, promotion of great titles, monthly sponsorship and print on demand book publishing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=292 Manga Magazine TGT Media )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Toonbarn Feature: Interview with MangaMagazine.net’s Victor Chu )〕 The company was more a service provider to independent artists and this sets them apart from other e-comics initiatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Interview With Victor Chu of MangaMagazine.net )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Interview With Victor Chu of MangaMagazine.net )〕 Inkblazers.com took a crowdsourcing approach to publishing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Manga Magazine takes a crowdsourced approach to publishing )〕 Key benefits of crowdsourcing drove the company’s decisions included: 1. Fan support for authors. 2. Data backing up decisions on marketing and content rights acquisition. 3. More sales resulting from content aggregation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How crowdsourcing turned a comic fan’s fantasy into a reality )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crowdsourcing: Why Publishers Should Rethink Content Acquisition )〕 Furthermore, the website created an environment in which authors and member contributors can interact and share advice as well as an area in which project collaborations become possible. Inkblazers shut down on February 1, 2015 as the creators could no longer financially support the continuation of the site, causing many members to search for another webcomic site. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inkblazers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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