Touhou Opens New Official Route for Fans to Sell Doujinshi as Commercial E-Books
Touhou Project creator ZUN is giving fan creators another officially sanctioned way to commercially sell their doujin works, with Japanese publisher BookLive launching a new program that turns fan-made Touhou publications into commercially distributed e-books.
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