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NEWS: JManga Lists More New Titles




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sarusa



Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:24 am Reply with quote
I love the selection, I still hate the pricing.

More than a physical book from Amazon (High School Girls 1 for $8.99?) and horrendously restricted usage (online web-app only, in lo-res)? Bakana.

Make it $1-2$ a volume and I will buy hundreds of dollars worth - I could live with the restrictions for the variety at that price.
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MrHatandClogs



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:23 am Reply with quote
I about crapped my pants when I saw "The Vanishing of Yuki-chan Nagato" I don't care how much they want for it, I will definitely grab it, and still the buy the physical copy if Yen Press releases it!
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Peebs



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:49 pm Reply with quote
I don't understand how they can charge using a point system (just like emanga does) and dare to tell me that if I sign up for their monthly plan of $10, I'll get 1,000 points plus 50 points as a gift (I'm special!) when a single volume costs 899 points (Wonder! vol. 1). That's just one example. In one month I can only read one manga? That's a rip off! It's insane! I can spend $100 a month on the Viz app and get 15-20 titles and they're mine to read whenever I want (either on the iPad or their website). JManga then tells me that I can pay more money to get more points. I thought they would base their business model on Crunchyroll's (don't know if they're associated in any way or not) which works much better for me.

So far from what I've seen eManga, Square Enix, Yen Press and now JManga have the worst pricing, online viewers, pay system, and websites, although, eManga's website hasn't changed much since they started business.

The only place I can reliably get digital manga is Viz. I like that I know how much in dollars I pay for a volume. They have what I want anyway. For the rest, I'll have to wait for it to be licensed (Sket Dance and Beelzebub) or released digitally (Prince of Tennis).

I also noticed some of the titles JManga has you can get for the Kindle (mostly yaoi titles) or for the Viz app. I don't see the point of getting those titles if I can read them on my computer through the Kindle app or VizManga.

If JManga got its act together, they could give DMG a run for its money and work on yaoi titles they don't have. I do have my suspicions. Both JManga and DMG use the same stupid business model (charge for points making a volume very expensive to get). Are they connected somehow? The viewers are not identical, though. And DMG's English on the website reads better than JManga's which reads like it's written by a non-native English speaker.
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