Quote of the day

“If you’d stepped aboard a Japanese subway train 15 years ago, you’d have witnessed passengers engrossed in hefty, telephone directory–thick manga comic books. Today, you are more likely to see commuters of all ages peering intently into their cellphone screens, reading the same tales of comic heroes, romance, and sleaze— only this time carried in mobile digital libraries that have made Japan a forerunner in the burgeoning e-book–for–phone industry.”

— From “Comics Drive Growing Japanese E-Book Market” by Michael Fitzpatrick in Publishers Weekly Comics Week.

“Sleaze”? Seriously?