This. Just because you didn’t have a business plan is no excuse …

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Comment on Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant” by Anonymous:

This. Just because you didn’t have a business plan is no excuse to whine against people who do know how to bring manga to non-Japanese people as a hobby.

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• Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant”:
  

  Try before buy, retard.

• Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant”:
  

  First I agree with many at the point of small series, and the more special ones, wouldn’t be know outside Japan, if not for the scanlaters. Second I don’t live in a not english-speaking countries, so some (if not most) of the 10 series there’s translated to my nativ language, is partially or completely translated from english, which gives some wery weird sentences or phrases sometime, a problem but not a big one. Thirdly, yes scanlaters is responsible for the large interest in manga and anime, …

• Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant”:
  

  I agree. These publishers out there do not have any considerations for the regions who do not have any existing shops where we could actually purchase manga titles. Especially the ongoing ones.

• Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant”:
  

  If only mangas would be available “worldwide” and if only these titles would be sold at a cheaper price, there wouldn’t be any need for scanlations. Sheesh. Are they even thinking? In my own opinion, most of the manga titles were known through these scanlations. *Sigh* If they are really against scanlations, they better provide the audiences an alternative. An AFFORDABLE alternative.

• Publishers Vow War on Scanlation “Piracy is Rampant”:
  

  Yet another stupid old business model. Evolve, adept, dominate, win. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Without online mediums manga wouldn’t have this kind of exposure dumbass. Didn’t learn shit from the music industry. These fuckers would want us buying old recycle paper comic books from 1920 if they could. Scanlators should start making business deals with the japanese publishers and fuck off these usa crap publishers. Can’t compete, don’t care about otaku, only in it for the money, get the …

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