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NEWS: Manga Scan Site Says It Will Remove Manga

Agila -

I don't normally bother with press quotes. That stuff is for people who don't know better.

That's the sort of thing they tell investors to calm them into thinking that they're moving on and embracing the "digital age".

He's not actually lying (they aren't allowed to do that). Look carefully. "It has been a challenge.....blah, blah, blah.....to shepard Japanese manga's entrance into the digital era?"

That says absolutely nothing.

I will believe it when I see it.

So now comes the question, "So are you going to sell this to us?"

ZiharkXVI wrote:

So now comes the question, "So are you going to sell this to us?"

For the ripped scans straight for manga in print in the US that are uploaded to OneManga, the answer to the question is, "its already for sale".

popularity can only go so far in actual sales. How many actual mangas can you name that were very popular on the internet from some scanilation group or manga hosting site that was actually licensed and sold HALF as well as naruto, bleach,one pice, negima, or FMA.

Publishers can not use ye old way of fan-subs and scans anymore to project sales of their products. Too many of the people that watch and read these series are being hand fed and will not spend the money for the series that they just stole.

Publishers are going to have to change their model of projecting sales. Actual market research through will come along way and provide a more substantial ground for projecting sales on any particular series in general then a scanilation site or a hosting site will do because those that took the time to provide the information (outsourced or not) are more likely to spend money on the product.

The biggest constraint to securing sales as to piracy of the mangas and anime series is TIME. Die hard fans of any series are easily seduced into taking the pirated series becuse they love the series and can't wait see what happens next in the series. Waiting a few weeks or months is a painstaking endeavor. (we have all been there don't bs me*im one too) I would like to think that also the die hard will pay what they owe when said series becomes available in their area. But in the real world not all will for whatever the reason may be.

Now we all know what the solution is to this problem. If a small team of fans(3-5) can distribute over the internet at a low cost to themselves for FREE a series (anime or manga) to reach over 20mil people all over the world, imagine what a publisher with actual resources on a real budget (no matter how low) can do! The race to be the first one to put out a real product in a relatively good quality wins.

The prise to be first has GREAT potential. For example, people will wait hours to be the first to buy a new iphone paying HUNDREDS of dollars KNOWING that their will be bugs, and that three months down the line that same product will cheaper 100$ less without the bugs. To top that off something better will come out the next year or two that is better and cheaper. Why? Because they wanted the privilege to be first to have the satisfaction of the fact they they were first before you and me.

Publishers should take note that if they really want to hurt piracy, they have to be first! If you can pump out the product first you win the race. why would your customers wait for some scanner to release knowing that the official release comes out faster? They wont, even if you charge them a decent price for having that satisfaction of being the first to read or watch.

The good that has come out of one manga is that now they know that their is a market of digital distribution of manga. The catch is that they have to release that product in the same manner that crunchyroll has been doing to anime. That is the key to digital distribution. That is the true next step for all the publishers, because this is the heart of their problem with piracy. killing sites like one manga is only the first step in this whole fiasco of digital piracy.

Bloody hell i might as well wirte some kind of editorial or something.

For the ripped scans straight for manga in print in the US that are uploaded to OneManga, the answer to the question is, "its already for sale".

That is not a new company. That is a company that is already doing digital distribution. And it is not doing it by fighting through the bitter opposition of the publishers ... the publishers own Bitway.

What is new about the venture is digital distribution outside of Japan.

Bootleg distribution is much easier. Contract terms do not have to be vetted, since para-sites like OneManga ignore contract rights. They do not have to work out whether royalties will be fixed rate, a percentage of gross, or a percentage of net ... since they pay no royalties. They do not have to work out whether translations will be crowdsourced, paid a percentage, or paid a page rate ... since they just rip off the translation work of either scanlators or US publishers.

The Japanese industry has been focusing on Japanese-oriented piracy, but in hitting over a billion pageviews, OneManga finally got the attention of the Japanese industry regarding piracy of English-translated manga.

This isn't a black and white issue. We are living in the digital age, and unless companies adapt (like Funimation for example) they'll go the way of the T-Rex and the Dodo.

Yes, some digital distribution is going on in a legal approved sort of way, buts it still in its infancy. If the owners of One Manga where smarter they would have done what Crunchy Roll did and we'd all be better off. They where the one site on the web that showed how this type of product should have been distributed and sold.

Basically this explosion on the internet after OM's announcement has made me lose faith in the majority of "fans" but gained faith in the minority who seem to be a little wiser. lol

My question now is, why do we have 17 pages of nerds throwing text at eachother?