Future in content, entertainment and media I enjoy reading manga every day thanks to Amazon Unlimited. It is a subscription service you can read as many as you like in tons of available books. I think the distribution cost of manga dropped significantly in a recent couple of years. Then many manga authors can skip some editing company or major book shop distributors. So is it easy to sell manga? Not at all. Manga authors need to differentiate their works from a lot of competitors and if you aren't famous enough, it becomes harder for you and your works to get people's attention. I can see the same thing in the celebrity industry as well. They don't need to communicate with the large TV stations or the agency. Just broadcasting you via YouTube, then you can become the hottest talent in the world, YouTuber. However, they seem to be struggling to establish a strong image among many YouTubers. One of the most famous YouTubers in Japan buys a lot of luxurious goods and shows them. Like $100 tissue box, $30000 Louis Vuitton trunk etc... They look a little bit anxious because they have already entered into the endless competition on YouTube. Upload an exciting video and increase their subscriber, then creating a video, editing a video... They do this cycle every day because their competitors do every day. And one of them just said that it's ridiculous because they can't do anything they had wanted to do. Maybe in the future, the cost of creating contents will also go down. For example, just share your plot of a story in the text format, AI will create your original manga or animation based on the text information. I don't think it's impossible at all. Then what manga drawer( sometimes manga is created by pair. Author and drawer. or artist and writer? ) will do in the future? Only a writer can run a business? The same thing will happen in the movie industry as well. And the important thing is who will add an incremental value to the work in addition to AI standardized work. A director, scriptor, producer or writer?