A Drifting Life being made into film? | Newspaper company to introduce own e-reader, distro service

According to this Singaporean news site, a black-and-white movie adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life is currently in the works.  Few details are given, and I can’t find any other confirmation at the moment, so take this with a grain of salt.

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According to Engadget, Hearst Corp, a major newspaper publisher, will be introducing a digital content distribution service called Skiff, which will be compatible across a number of devices, including its own e-ink-based device.  The service will supposedly provide better margins for publishers, and allow easy injection of advertising.  The as yet unnamed e-reader is said to have better graphical capabilities than the current crop of devices, which is a must for the often image-heavy, complex layouts of newspapers.

So a newspaper media giant is taking the reigns and saving itself.  Makes one wonder if the comics industry shouldn’t consider the same path…

Also of interest, some early shots of an actual nook in the wild.  As one of the early adopters who placed an order back in October, I will be among the first to get the nook on the 9th, at which time I will promptly try to break it with hi-res porn manga PDFs.  Expect immediate impressions.

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Anime3000 collects some tweets about Tokyopop’s interest in working with scanlation sites.  It doesn’t look like the program will get off the ground…

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Robot6 has a few updates on the LoEG situation in Kentucky, in which the self-appointed censor at the heart of the controversy has pretty much dropped any pretense of this being a “protect the children” issue by using words like “tax base.”