Japanese commercial font company acquisition leads to over 50x price increase(automaton-media.com)
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Japanese commercial font company acquisition leads to over 50x price increase
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-game-developers-face-ridiculously-high-font-license-fees-following-us-acquisition-of-major-domestic-provider-live-service-games-to-take-the-biggest-blow/
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187
> The main factor behind this shift appears to be the acquisition of Fontworks by the US-based Monotype in 2023.
When I read the headline, my bet was that the culprit would be US Private Equity, and that there's no way a Japanese or Chinese company would pull such a move. That kind of destructive rent extraction is just not in their normal playbooks.
Yeah, I wasn't entirely correct, but pretty damn close.
When I read the headline, my bet was that the culprit would be US Private Equity, and that there's no way a Japanese or Chinese company would pull such a move. That kind of destructive rent extraction is just not in their normal playbooks.
Yeah, I wasn't entirely correct, but pretty damn close.