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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
OneManga and MangaFox don't actually do
scanlations; they are simply
sites where the
scanlation groups
who translate those weekly chapters upload their work, to build a better audience.