Ironically, manga is one of those mediums the users would like to pay for, to fill their bookshelves with, but 99% of manga never get officially translated or published outside of Japan, so they wouldn’t have been sold even if 100% of pirates wanted to buy copies.
I hope I can say this without getting attacked by manga fans, but I can’t effort manga, they are way too expensive to me. If I pay more for a manga than for two books, while I read the book 20 times longer, it doesn’t feel like good investment to me. I know there’s a lot of time spend on creating nice art and I too spend a few seconds admiring a good page, but that’s about it. Anime is not much better, I don’t enjoy spending hundreds of Euro or a thousand, for a series I watch once or twice.
Yeah. A lot of those sites are actually translating them, often from donations by the users. I doubt anyone is getting well paid on the unofficial sites, as when they translations a lot of people flock to those as they are often higher quality images as well.
The assumption that pirates would pay rather than simply consuming other media is absurd.
These loss numbers are pulled out of thin air with no reasoning behind them.
Ironically, manga is one of those mediums the users would like to pay for, to fill their bookshelves with, but 99% of manga never get officially translated or published outside of Japan, so they wouldn’t have been sold even if 100% of pirates wanted to buy copies.
I hope I can say this without getting attacked by manga fans, but I can’t effort manga, they are way too expensive to me. If I pay more for a manga than for two books, while I read the book 20 times longer, it doesn’t feel like good investment to me. I know there’s a lot of time spend on creating nice art and I too spend a few seconds admiring a good page, but that’s about it. Anime is not much better, I don’t enjoy spending hundreds of Euro or a thousand, for a series I watch once or twice.
Yeah. A lot of those sites are actually translating them, often from donations by the users. I doubt anyone is getting well paid on the unofficial sites, as when they translations a lot of people flock to those as they are often higher quality images as well.