Even though a legal site will still not be able to match the amount on
illegal scanlation sites who host manga from every publisher, a quality site is working well for Crunchyroll versus its pirate competitors.
Well,
illegal scanlations have an impact that's many times bigger than any legal manga site.
Not exact matches
After two years of double digit declines in sales of manga, American manga publishers have formed a coalition with their Japanese counterparts to battle the
illegal Internet distribution of unlicensed manga via
scanlation sites where translated versions of manga often appear just days after publication in Japan.
Explaining that the idea is to give impatient readers an alternative to
illegal scan sites, Newman told CBR, «I think the reason that
scanlation sites thrive is because they release content on such a fast schedule.