Putting apps on the iPad is not going to slow down
scanlation sites in the least bit.
Not exact matches
The
site is all
in Japanese but you can find the list of websites
in English on pages 11 and 12 for manga
scanlation sites, pages 13 - 15 for video hosting
sites (Youtube, Dailymotion etc.) and pages 16 - 18 for torrenting
sites.
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.
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.
Oh, and another possiblity - VIZ's minions have killed off or are
in the process of killing off a number of
scanlation sites who haven't dropped or added back their titles.
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.
A Google search for «manga» returns seven «
scanlation» aggregators and zero manga publishers
in the top ten, while searches for «comics,» «books,» and «graphic novels» turn up stores and publisher
sites, and even a search for «anime» turns up mostly legitimate
sites.
Scanlation site Manga Helpers, which was
in the news last year for trying to reach out manga publishers, has simultaneously announced it will stop hosting
scanlations and will start a new business model called Open Manga.
Premium members may be able to buy a couple of chapters a month to fill
in the holes
in their digital collection, but it still doesn't take on the unbeatable price of all chapters free on some
scanlation sites.
in high school on a
scanlation site and was intrigued by Toriyama doing a color comic, which was part of the deal for doing the weekly again, that they'd let him do it
in color.
One of the greatest contributors to the growth of the war against
scanlations are the many aggregate
sites that present free scanlated material while remaining profitable thanks to ad revenue, donations, and
in some cases user memberships.
They will all be working
in concert with US manga publishers Vertical Inc., Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press to bring legal action to a slew of
scanlation sites.
The big
scanlation aggregator
sites are blatant pirates (some also sell bootleg merchandise), but most small scanlators aren't actually trying to screw over their favorite artists, and manga publishers don't have to be stupid, like Paramount
in the»90s trying to stamp out Star Trek fansites.
Another
site that hosted
scanlations has bowed to legal pressures and taken down all of the manga from members
in the coalition.