LibraryPass and Kodansha Announce Digital Access for Libraries and Schools, Expanding Manga Availability in Comics Plus

LibraryPass, Inc. has announced a distribution agreement with Kodansha USA Publishing, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest publishing company, to make its digital catalog of manga available to libraries and schools through Comics Plus. With Comics Plus, readers can borrow thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from their school or library—with unlimited simultaneous access for online and offline reading.

Memoir, LGBTQ, Manga Lead the Way in Digital Comics Circulation

Reinforcing our belief that there’s more to comics than Dog Man and superheroes, memoir, LGBTQ, and manga were the most engaged categories in Comics Plus, driven by popular titles like Dark Horse’s Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, and IDW’s They Called Us Enemy. Titles in those categories were checked out more than three times the average during the first quarter of 2021.