[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I'm interest in a manga series, so I go to the bookstore, sit on a couch, and read all the volumes.

...How is this any different from looking at scans?

Honestly, the only reason I go to the bookstore to read manga is because I hate reading comics on a computer. But seriously, fuck no. I'm not going to spend $10 on something that takes me twenty minutes to read.

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

I wish manga was priced more like tankobons, with it being $3-$4 per volume.

I understand why it's not, but I really think that there would probably be more sales, especially from teens who might not be able to drop $20-$30 at a time for three volumes, but who can spot $10 for two.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

From a business standpoint, English manga pricing got to be a really tough call. Translation is fucking expensive, so I totally get the markup, but at the same time, it does take manga out of the price-range for a lot of younger fans. But I'd hate to see English manga go the way of genre fiction, with most of it being sold at a per-copy loss. I don't know, I really just want someone to swoop in and fix the whole English-language publishing industry in a way that benefits creators and fans alike.

[the_prettiest_star]

Tankobons are no longer $3-4 per volume unless you're buying it used at a BookOff. That might have been the case 3+ years ago, but the latest volume of Detective Conan was $8USD brand new at Kinokuniya; it retails for 440Yen ($5.50USD) in Japan. Deflation of the Yen to Dollar is a huge issue they're trying to stop as Japan needs to be able to export goods.

Now, putting aside economics, considering Kinokuniya is only adding about $2.50 for shipping, maintaining a brick and mortar store and paying their employees so I can buy manga - I don't mind paying the difference at all.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I own the entirety of only one manga series because I found a second hand store selling each book for under $5. I bought them all

Anywhere else I'm paying $15 per book if I'm lucky, average price is $23.

For a book I can read in under an hour.

NO.

Honestly I'm slowly losing interest in manga because legally it's really expensive, but illegally I don't like reading online and/or downloading all the pages.

So I'm slowly just...stopping. It's too expensive, and it's not like I am poor. It's too expensive for me, and I'm almost middle income. :/

[(Anonymous)]

And that's why stores in Japan don't let you do that--because they'd rather not have your sale AND keep you from reading the material than not have your sale but let you read the material anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

uhhh...what stores are you going to? cause every single store that sells manga that i've been into has lines of people reading manga, even the used stores where you can buy it at 100y a tankoban.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it takes twenty minutes to read something that took weeks of effort and years of training to make. It's just unfortunate that so many people take all that work for granted.