[Tainan, Taiwan] Summer 2008 NCKU Doujin Convention

Summer 2008 Doujin Convention @ National Cheng-Kong Unversity

Other reports on Otaku

Otaku: Japan's Consumer Fanatics (BusinessWeek)

Anime Fantasy Is Big-Biz Reality (BusinessWeek)

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WIRED: Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex

This is the cover of November '07 Issue of WIRED magazine
To read the cover story:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga


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Fan Fictions

Fan Fictions is literally fictions written by fans.
In English websites, the categories of fan fictions could range from TV shows (such as The X Files) to movies, cartoons. Obviously, the category of anime/manga is now a very popular one.

Link to fan fictions:
FanFiction.Net