It's certainly an interesting topic, growing up all through out high school, I certainly didn't have much of an income so streaming from websites or reading
online scanlations was the only way for me to keep up to date with a lot of anime and manga, not to mention at the time, the Western audience was definitely suffering from lack of material.
Not exact matches
And still, these manga released
online tackle one of the most common reasons for turning to
scanlations: they're free or cheap.
So I'm guessing it's more likely we'll see it for an assortment of SJump series that are not in Shonen Jump USA at the moment, but have big
online followings, or are newly launched in Japan, thus allowing VIZ to pull a Rinne, and capture the
online market for the title in it's entirety, and not have to compete with
scanlation sites that also host copies of it.
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.
I do not provide
scanlations or translations on this site, nor do I provide links to sites where you can read manga
online.
Just putting a few mid-list titles
online isn't enough; no matter how nice the reading interface is, VIZ's shonensunday.com and sigikki.com can't compete with thousands of titles on
scanlation aggregators.
Many manga publishers and retailers who used to believe that
scanlations actually attracted new readers, now blame the sales decline on the rise of giant for - profit
scanlation sites that have allowed a new generation of fans to grow up reading manga for free
online.
Most popular manga
scanlations read
online for free at mangafox, as well as a close - knit community to chat and make friends.