Sentences with phrase «scanlation readers»

Scanlators, of course, make nothing at all; they work for love, not money, and one of the justifications that scanlation readers use for their habit is that fan - translators do a better job than those who work for commercial publishers.

(I mean... I admit, I am a scanlation reader, but that isn't why I wouldn't want to pay their proposed prices).

Not exact matches

What does this mean for readers, and can the industry fight off the colossal titan of free scanlations?

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 agree with you that there is a divide between the scanlation community and the people who read the aggregation sites, and that for the serious scanlators and readers, quality is of paramount importance.

The publishers, on the other hand, say that readers turning to scanlations is a reason why they can't or won't license certain titles or, in the case of the Japanese publishers, why a series is being axed early.

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.

Here's why that doesn't matter: There are still plenty of multi-comic manga apps on the iTunes store, and every one of them is a mobile reader for a scanlation site.

For years American readers and pundits have been pining for an English translation, with The Comics Journal «s Dirk Deppey openly endorsing reading scanlations in the absence of an official English - language release.

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.

Jake Forbes and Deb Aoki discussed in detail the particular permutations of the large «scanlation» community of manga readers that grew specifically out of the unavailability of so many Japanese comic books in English.

It's a system that doesn't rely on scanlation and Japanese readers, or simply risk - takers and faithful, to succeed.

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.

The Sony E-reader is now on my list...... now to see if I can find out about other readers, like the Kindle concerning manga scanlations.

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.