But, one fine day, there was a coordinated legal attack by almost all of the impacted publishers and all of the better known sites
offering scanlations were shut down, which was followed by a period of vigorous enforcement designed to prevent the scanlation model from resurfacing elsewhere on the web until people got out of the habit of making and reading them.
Summed up to start, I believe JManga could never have held on long term (though credit where credit's due for the time they did last) for a number of reasons, but ultimately JManga was, simply put,
offering scanlations to readers with the expectation of being paid for it.
Not exact matches
I imagine they'd be more likely to
offer titles viz Kindle, Comixology, EManga or other ebook services that are already operational, in business, and don't have a past as a
scanlation site.
As she says, Online manga should be aiming to
offer readers what
scanlations are always touted as providing in their purest intentions — manga the reader can't get in their language or in print at all.
Not only could this be a fantastic endeavour for Digital Manga's current English market, but to manga readers around the world as well,
offering a fan - involved, legal and artist supporting alternative to
scanlations.
With exception of some unique content, much of which simply too niche for even scanlators to bother with, JManga
offered up nothing that
scanlations don't already and for free.