Why, manga publishers, WHY??????

[kjh242]

Aaaaaas you may know, recently most big manga publishers changed their policies so that sites like OneManga that previously allowed you to read pretty much anything online can no longer show their mangas.In my eyes, SERIOUSLY NOT COOL, GUYS. I don't want to wait until Bleach chapter 415 and D.Gray-Man 197 come out stateside... sob.

Anyways, does anyone know why they chose to do this?

also, if you're only replying to criticize my choices of manga... F**K OFF.

 

[Aura Guardian]

I don't know anything about OneManga, but were they getting any money for that site?

 

[Aura Guardian]

Isn't reading them for free pretty much pirating? I'm not trying to be preachy, I don't care if you obey copyright laws or not, but you shouldn't be surprised that someone should try to prevent their material from getting out for free when they should be making money.

So that answered my question

 

[kjh242]

Well, they haven't had a problem with it until now. these sites have been up for a long time, and a few are fairly well-known (OM even has its own google chrome extension...)
Funny, Japanese/Korean/whatever executives are...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I didn't know about such websites or services. I buy my manga in store or, for the harder to find ones, online.

 

[RootbeerJello]

The fact that scanlations aren't cool with manga writers is entirely logical. I just don't get why they acted on it now, after scanlations have been around for years.

 

[twasdfzxcv]

Problem is that nobody would ever want to wait how many extra months it takes for the volume to be released, translated and then re-released in non Japanese market when people would scans and translate weekly newest chapters for free online. So unless the publisher wise up and offer at most one week delay with the translated version, nothing is going to change.

That's the problem that causes lots of pirating. The world is getting smaller thanks to the internet but the publishing/media industry still stick with their region base business model. The arbitrary imposed region restriction just doesn't make any sense in this day and age.

To OP: the big name manga would still be scanlated by various groups, you just have to look elsewhere. As for the smaller/less popular titles, it really is a shame as people would be less likely to be able to read those now.

 

[Nannernade]

Money gets the best of people these days, if there is no reward in it for them why should they bother to do anything to please others?

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

...they want to make money?

 

[TehCookie]

I think taking it offline will decrease sales because of people like me, who will only buy manga after I read it and thought it was good enough to spend my money on. Taking sites like onemanga down will make some people (like me and my friends) buy less. It's kinda similar to most people and pirating music.

 

[Azriel Nightshade]

Well, they haven't had a problem with it until now. these sites have been up for a long time, and a few are fairly well-known (OM even has its own google chrome extension...)
Funny, Japanese/Korean/whatever executives are...

Scanlations have always been illegal and it's not that manga publishers have not had issues with their works being free online,they simply lacked the ability to do anything about it.If I'm not mistake several big name manga publishers recently came together to form a group to help police illegal scanlations.

 

[Sacman]

The manga companies are blaming sites like OneManga for their abysmal sales here in the states(As well as in other countries).
They don't even stop to consider the fact that they charge far too much per volume.($10+ bucks per volume, fuck that)


I don't see this doing anything to improve their sales. Nothing will change, except maybe a decline in the amount of manga read outside Asian countries.

$10 where have you been buying yours I've been paying $25!!!

 

[child of lileth]

This thread has already been posted and answered a million times. Stuff cost money.

 

[Steppin Razor]

The manga companies are blaming sites like OneManga for their abysmal sales here in the states(As well as in other countries).
They don't even stop to consider the fact that they charge far too much per volume.($10+ bucks per volume, fuck that)

I don't see this doing anything to improve their sales. Nothing will change, except maybe a decline in the amount of manga read outside Asian countries.

They already did this with Black Jack. Scanlating sites took it down after a cease and desist was sent and the next volume that got released in the States had a pretty decent increase in sales.

That being said, the smaller series, aka "Anything that isn't Naruto, Bleach or One Piece", will most likely take a hit. Interesting times ahead. I'm betting that there will be a decrease in the amount of manga that ends up getting translated because people outside Japan won't even know the series exists, but if that happens we might see an increase in the number of smaller publishers that bring across the less well-known but infinitely better titles.