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Hon'ya-chan
Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:38 am |
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http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2862
| Quote: | | If you have visited the Mainichi Shinbun’s English site in the last few days, you’ve probably noticed ads for a business called MangaNovel. According to their press release, they are offering a deal to anyone willing to create English translations of the Japanese comics they sell: |
Seems like a good way for the fan translations to get some credit.
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Subaru19
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:08 pm |
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| Hon'ya-chan wrote: | http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2862
| Quote: | | If you have visited the Mainichi Shinbun’s English site in the last few days, you’ve probably noticed ads for a business called MangaNovel. According to their press release, they are offering a deal to anyone willing to create English translations of the Japanese comics they sell: |
Seems like a good way for the fan translations to get some credit. |
Seems like a better way for the manga company to get free translators.  It sounds a little suspicious to me. It also seems really disrespectful to professional translators. They're basically saying "well we think that fans can do this just as well as a professional, and we won't have to pay anyone (I mean is 50% royalty really anything?) to do it." As someone who respects the art of translation it seems like a step in the wrong direction.
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