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Yen press app needs work
I think this app is ok not great and could use a lot of work first the books are full price to me I might as well just go and buy the actual book for that price. Second they don't update the books at all I got to the point where I just got rid of this app sine a big chunk of the book they do have aren't what I like but I would keep it hoping they would put more selection. They just need to maintain this app some more and make a few changed and this app would be 10x better.Show lessJinxR22
Image Quality Issues on Retina Displays
My biggest complaint about this app is the poor image quality of the manga. The quality issues are especially apparent on retina display iPads. There is a lot of anti-aliasing around text and drawn lines that makes the details seem very jagged and not smooth at all. My eyes fatigue after awhile from reading the text which seems out of focus. For an app which is primarily used for reading this is a big problem. Other competing manga apps such as Viz do not have a retina ready app, but there image quality scales well enough, so there is no loss of quality and every thing looks smooth. Yen press, please consider increasing the image quality of your manga, so it is more readable.Show lessthedegeneric
Unreliable
The 3 Manga I've purchased have disappeared from my iPad and they appear in the store as if I'd never purchased them. It seems that I gave them my money for nothing. Very poor and unreliable app in my opinion. I don't recommend it.kremesch
Buyer Beware – Difficult to restore purchased content
I could go on about all the other things previous reviewers have mentioned, the books that are $3-4 higher in price than similar apps, the general bugginess, the poor selection and infrequent updating of titles, etc. What really bothers me, and the reason I gave the app 2 stars, is the complete lack of customer service, as well as the difficulty in restoring previously purchased content. After having to reinstall the app, I found myself unable to access my books. Clicking the “Report a Problem” link in my iTunes account page (which used to let you send a complaint directly to Apple), resulted only in sending me again and again to the iTunes Support landing page. Repeated attempts to resolve the issue, both through the in-app feedback, and Hachette's customer service page, were ignored, with not even a form email to show that my complaints were received. I finally restored an old version of the app from backup, which restored my content. However, while I now have the books I've already paid for, I have to restore all my other settings/content. Had I not purchased multiple items in-app, I wouldn't have bothered.
I highly doubt I'll be purchasing any other titles through the app. It's just not worth the money, especially when you can buy a hard copy for a few dollars more, one that you know won't be a hassle every time you want to read.Show lessskitten410
The app
Terrible absolutely terrible.... High school of the dead and all the other good manga's have been deleted..... Please at least add spice and wolf light novel!!!Ttul423
To keep it simple
Selection is short and not completely up to date
Interface is chunky and buggy (especially the gesture, keyboard, and processing time)
But it does offer Haruhi Suzumiy, Omamori Himari, High School of the Dead.
In other words save for the manga release this app needs a lot of work in terms of speed, interface, and the time it take for the works to be released (Haru-chan is missing)Show lessChi-wing
Fair prices, bad interface.
While I like some Yen Press titles, this app is badly structured. It should be organized better, such as by title series, not thrown all over the place like you don't care. Secondly, put a search option in, makes looking for titles a lot easier. Lastly, put more titles in. I'm waiting for Spice & Wolf to be released in digital.
The prices are fair, within $5-7 is better then $10-15. (Most people don't realize is that a good portion of that goes to making the paper for the book, publishing and then advertising it.)
At least look how another company put a manga portal app together, like Viz, they got the structure down pact.Show lessBill_a_Nator
