J-Novel Club

J-Novel Club is an American publisher of Japanese light novels and manga translated into English, German, and French. JNC is a digital-first publisher meaning all its titles are released as e-books first before selecting titles with the highest digital sales to print physical copies. It streams its products in weekly installments (called prepubs) before publishing the finalized e-books.

J-Novel Club was founded in 2016 by Sam Pinansky.

In 2017, J-Novel Club collaborated with Seven Seas Entertainment to publish print editions of some of JNC's light novels.

In 2018, J-Novel Club announced it would start publishing print editions of some of its light novels. In the same year, it also started publishing manga.

On April 28, 2021 J-Novel Club was purchased by Kadokawa Corporation.

At Anime NYC 2022, J-Novel Club announced it was entering into a new collaboration with Yen Press to publish print editions of their titles.

On March 6, 2024, J-Novel Club reached a print distribution agreement with Hachette Book Group via Yen Press and Diamond Book Distributors. Hachette will distribute all of J-Novel Club's titles in North America while Diamond Book will handle international sales.

In addition to Japanese titles, J-Novel Club has also translated German-language pulp fiction into English through its imprint, J-Novel Pulp, which debuted in 2021.