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Originally Posted by darkparagon  Could you explain what you mean when the closer of an scanlation site prevent works been publicized and promoted. |
Scanlation sites want bigger recognition of the authors they love. Right? So, they go through a lot of effort to scanlate their favourite works and put them up online for people like you and me to download (and enjoy).
By doing that, they are promoting the author's work. We downloaders read and enjoy the author's work, and maybe, some of these downloaders who read Japanese will go and actually buy (give money to) the original work, thanks to the scanlators.
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| It is just I was under the impression compainies would not want those groups around anyway because they lose out on money, because people would rather just download the manga, then buy it..........Could be wrong! |
That's a good thought! However, scanlators only scanlate works that are NOT licensed -- that is, those that English publishing companies haven't bought to distribute. They only scanlate works that would be unavailable anywhere else outside of Japan. They distribute these works to promote the author and her works better to foreign audiences.
This is to again greater promote the original author to a bigger audience outside just Japan. They do this out of their love for the author or even just the work.
Once the author's work becomes
licensed officially by an official distributor, then scanlators no longer can scanlate the author's manga for free. This is because the official distributors would lose money, like you said, and the author would lose money too.
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Or are you meaning the creation of the scanlation groups provents the publication and promotion of the work in question? Because I understand that point two!......
Just want to see your point a bit clearer , on your meaning |
They prevent the promotion and internet publicity the original author if they decide to suddenly STOP making available their scans, just because they failed as successful scanlation groups.
The whole point was to make the author better known to foreign audience by the internet. When groups shut down, and they say they want their works to stop being accessed and downloaded, they are stopping the promotion of this author. They are ceasing and cutting off the author's recognition with a non-Japanese audience.