XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc
From: kumonryuu@hotmail.com
"B Sellers" wrote in message
news:i080h2$n2s$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> As I have pointed out in the past in some cases the publishers
> and in others the mangaka have failed to make their licensed work
> available to the gaijin of the world. The library doesn't have seminal
In most cases that is because there is not a perceived profitable market for
it.
> works like Asuka no Joe in even the original Japanese. We are fortunate
> that they do have a lot of Osamu Tezuka, But they have failed to
> finish the collections of various modern works like GTO, AYA, KOR manga
> and the like. I think we would need a whole new building by the way
> to fit all those works in if they stayed in paper format but a few
> servers could be added with every manga ever printed and still
> extant, scanned and translated into the electronic formats.
>
> Scanning and translation groups are attempting to drag manga
> and anime into the 21st Century. There are a multitude of modern
Oh, like they were in 1996? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that
isn't their motivation at all.
> ways for the mangaka and even the publisher on appropriate media
> to get ample reimbursement if they would ditch the mindset that
> paper is required or useful in a modern age.
While I won't go so far as to say I'll never buy manga in an electronic
format (kindles and such have apparently approved the experience and the
tech will get better and cheaper), I will go so far as to say that at the
moment I can't even be bothered to follow something free I have an interest
in (like Rin-Ne) in an electronic format. It's hard on the eyes and not as
comfortable as having a real book. I am hardly the only one who considers
paper to be a value-add, so your generalisation is unfounded.
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Blade
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