From: hiro@nobaka.invalid   
      
   Ping Kuo  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > --  paper, as 99% of all English version, sucks as usual, (recycle is   
   > my guess, just barely better than the phone book.)   
      
   This is one of the things that bugs me about manga in the shops, the price   
   per volume is typically twice what I'd pay for a normal book of that size,   
   but the paper is unpleasantly rough to touch as you turn the pages. ADV   
   seems to be worst, Tokyopop is not much better. The only manga I have that   
   was printed on paper with a nice feel to it is the old Darkhorse 3x3 Eyes   
   volumes. When I'm paying a premium price for a book I think I'm entitled to   
   expect that they would at least use decent paper.   
      
   Another thing I've seen is occasional colour splash pages printed in black   
   and white, with all four colour inks replaced by black, giving a dark murky   
   result. (ADV's To Heart being an example of this) Would it really cost too   
   much to include four or five colour pages in a volume? (They might at least   
   have done a proper conversion to greyscale!) This kind of thing puts me off   
   buying manga because it feels such a rip off to pay high prices for a   
   poorly made product. I realise the prices are probably largely to do with   
   relatively low volume sales compared to regular books but such a cheap   
   approach will hardly help sales levels unless accompanied by a bargain   
   basement price.   
      
      
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