Viz Media and Drawn & Quarterly have joined the comic companies offering their products on e-readers. Viz launched on Barnes & Noble's Nook and Nook Color this week, with 107 volumes from 18 series.  More Viz titles, and previews, will be added weekly, with a plan to get to 500 volumes in the coming months.  The series added to date do not include the most popular (and longest) titles from the Viz line.

Here's the list:


Absolute Boyfriend
Arata: The Legend
Backstage Prince
Beast Master
Black Bird
Children of the Sea
Cross Game
Dengeki Daisy
Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden
House of Five Leaves
Hyde & Closer
I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow
Kekkaishi
Maoh: Juvenile Remix
Not Simple
Oishinbo
Saturn Apartments
SolaninWhat a Wonderful World!

Drawn & Quarterly has made two Chester Brown titles, Louis Riel a Comic-Strip Biography and Paying for It a Comic-Strip Biography about Being a John, available on the Kobo Vox reader.  Kobo has major market share in Canada and was the e-reader offered by the late, lamented Borders chain. These are the first D&Q titles to be offered in digital form.  D&Q says that it will add more titles and devices to its digital offerings through 2012.

D&Q is paying a 50% of net proceeds royalty to the creator, much higher than most publishers.