[army_kitten]

Originally Posted by amoxi

Sure Core magazine likes money, but I'm asking myself how large the fraction of their money actually is, which they make with fans who buy their works outside of little island Japan. I don't think this part is as big, but it's exactly this population of fans who are hit hardest by this. And it's not as if they are trying to conquer a world market, by selling english publications as well, which would be automatically accessible for a larger audience.

again, i'm not gonna pretend like i know exactly what's going on here, but i guess i should have clarified that i think this is more about their market inside japan than outside of it. manga makes up around 40% of the publishing market there, but if tons of raw scanned manga is available to anyone on the internet, you can bet that there are lots of japanese who are downloading and reading for free rather than spending the money on a magazine or tankoubon.

this may be an english-language site, but i'm pretty sure there's more raw scanned manga on here than even scanlations, because for one thing raw scans are a part of the scanlation process. so if a publishing company is going to crack down on the free distribution of their works online, they have to include ALL forms of distribution, including translated scans.

that's how it seems to me, anyway.