Comments on: US, Japanese Publishers Unite Against Scan Sites

By: M

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:54:14 +0000

haha. yea. I bought. I have quite a few actually.

By: M

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:53:27 +0000

lol. OpenManga is coming soon. Hopefully the structure is adopted by the big publishers.

Honestly, if we can have like a weekly ’simulcast’ of manga for a decent monthly fee, I don’t mind paying.

Cause:

1. You’re supporting the mangaka instead of just leeching off them for free.

2. A confirmation you get your manga weekly/monthly. Unlikely fan-scanlations which have varying schedules, plainly due to either RL-issues or no one wants to scanlate it.

By: zenical

zenical — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:43:37 +0000

ads like google ads? Personally google ads don’t really earn a lot. I seldom click on ads, but yes I do see sites with ads. There are ways how an ad can be placed. How the sites generate revenue is unknown to us now…

By: zenical

zenical — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:42:31 +0000

time for some ebook thingy to appear on the net so that folks like us can get manga [raw or translated] from Japan!!!

By: zenical

zenical — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:41:55 +0000

WOW YOU BOUGHT MANGA :O

By: M

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:55:19 +0000

Yeah.

Censorship is a big wall in blocking half the manga from being ported out of Japan.

By: Reltair

Reltair — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:36:43 +0000

The problem is that publishers here take too long to translate and publish new manga. That is, if they even decide to release it here.

By: atmzeal

atmzeal — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:33:03 +0000

considering the way crunchyroll.com has been licensing anime to come out in english subtitles in a simulcast, there are definitely better ways for companies to make money off of the world-wide demand.

and the scan sites or sites that post streamed anime videos do make a good amount of money from the ad revenue that you usually see plastered to the side or top of the site. the only time that’s not true is if it’s a website that requires a paid membership or there are absolutely no ads on the site.

and if you want to see the amount of money you can make, look at the Television industry and the newspaper/magazine industry. They are all primarily funded, literally, by ad revenue. All they have to do is adopt a similar model to the simulcast anime on crunchyroll or tv so you can provide free content, which is what everyone wants, but still make some money off it. Otherwise, you get absolutely nothing from pirating – aside from net neutrality and censoring issues.

By: M

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:41:46 +0000

lol. I can honestly say I buy manga. Just so happens I bought manga just yesterday. Main reason was cause no one scanlated the chapter but yeah, unless there’s some publisher that can translate and sell the copies fast enough, there’s not gonna be anyone reading their copies.

Besides, not many people have the patience to wait for Tankobon formats.