[ SECRET POST #1843 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1843 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 50 secrets from Secret Submission Post #263.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

To me, reading scanlations is like using a virtual library.
I still support the artists in any way I can if I like what they've got to offer. I live in a country where the manga selection is small (they only started publishing it less than ten years ago, and that was because of the internet and the popularity of some of the scanlations available).

And how do people think publishers pick their manga titles? Do people honestly think everyone in the manga publishing industry instantly know "what's hot and would sell well" if it weren't for the scans and the fans reactions to them?

Honestly.
(Yes I'm aware there exist people who know quality manga even without consulting the Internet.)

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

how do people think publishers pick their manga titles? Do people honestly think everyone in the manga publishing industry instantly know "what's hot and would sell well" if it weren't for the scans and the fans reactions to them?

This pretty much sums up my problems with the industry's attitude toward piracy. Like, why did Anime Expo know to focus so much on legally acquiring rights to Durarara this year? Nobody in the United States was supposed to have ever seen it, right?

It's not that piracy has no negative effect - there's an anon in this thread who gave a pretty good personal example of being in a store with a cheap and rare item nobody was buying because they could get it for free - but this idea that it's all bad seems to be completely ignoring all the free marketing the industry gleans from fansubs.

[(Anonymous)]

I read lots of scanlations. And when there's a scanlation I really love, I buy the manga (it definitely helps that I live in Japan, understand Japanese enough to justify the purchase, and manga is extremely cheap and easy to procure here). I like to think I'm helping foster good habits in the world of manga and not support people whose work isn't all that good or is downright revolting.