Need some clarification about Yen Press

Most popular Japanese light novels publish a volume every 3-5 months on average (2.5-4 volumes per year). That's true whether they're based on web novels (and thus already have a fanbase so you can already estimate sales even before release) or completely new (and thus entirely unknown). But they're almost all released by one of a few large publishers (Kadokawa alone controls more than 70% of the market, with branches for other media as well as advertising), so the publishers can afford to eat a few losses and continue publishing unpopular works, because they can make up for it with the other series.

There's also the fact that novel sales are only a part of the profits. For a popular series, merchandising (toys, figures, art books, drama CDs, etc.) can easily contribute more revenue than actual book sales, and then there's anime/manga/video game/film/etc. adaptations and derivatives, and a lot of other extra revenue sources. 

I don't think no game no life was bad translation. I own all copies they have released of it so far. It's a bit different than fan translation but still a good read. 

Oh yeah. Many people hate yen press because they start series from the beginning. They get mad because the fan translators stop and now they must wait for yen press to play catch up. Their release rates aren't bad. Each novel gets 3-4 releases a year which compared to some fan translation is far more then what they could do. The other people are just mad because now they have to wait 2-3 year for yen press to get where they were after years of translayion. 

I'm actualy a little slow for the RPG market, since is a side job for me, but not by much. Like I said, the usual is to know if a book make a profit after six mounths. So even the most prolific author will have 2 books published a year at most.

Now, those 2~4 mounths you're talking about, are they publication dates of the volumes of the light novels, or writting time for the web novel version, that are unedited versions that don't have to worry about editorial business practices? 

The problem with the releases is that they don't seem to have a fixed schedule (though each series usually has an almost consistent schedule).

In some cases, they may publish 3 volumes a year for a series, while others may take them almost a year per volume. Just to put a simple example, they licensed Strike the Blood in August 2013 and DanMachi in April 2014. They are going to release soon volume 4 for StB, which rounds to 7-8 months per volume, while they've just published volume 5 of DanMachi, which rounds to one volume per 5 months. 

Shit, you are right, I'm misremembering plagiarizing keyframes (had to doublecheck my facts, found the frames) over story >.> Yep, my argument for the Lion King went up in smoke in the plagiarizing department... The authenticity point still stands though, assuming the Roger Allers quote is correct, they made their own story with identical iconic scenes. So a better version of the dubbed samurai pizza cats