XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: kumonryuu@hotmail.com   
      
   "B Sellers"  wrote in message   
   news:i08qg4$bh9$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > On 06/27/2010 04:09 PM, Blade wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "B Sellers"  wrote in message   
   >> news:i080h2$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.   
   >   
   > There is a market but perhaps not the market size the Japanese   
   > anticipate.  As the work is done by the licensee the cost is absorbed   
   > into the price of the work sold to consumers.  It costs the Japanese   
   > IP owners very little and the income is lagniappe for the IP owners.   
   > Of course they may believe the market will be better at a later time   
   > with a company more controlled by the Japanese.  But I doubt they   
   > understand the sort of Americans who are interested in their product   
   > and who may in the future be interested.   
      
   I doubt you're really in a position to make judgments on what they do or do   
   not understand, actually.   
      
   > But back to 1996 without the activities of such hobbyists and   
   > their support groups would we have anything like the current interest   
   > in anime and manga?  I rather think these people were trying to adapt   
      
   Yes.   
      
   And most of the current interest in anime and manga doesn't come from them.   
      
   > So when are the publishers and anime producers going to use   
   > the technology of the 21st Century to make some money from me   
   > and I don't mean in protected formats that won't work on my   
   > computer.   
      
   When it is financially worth it for them to do so, most likely.   
      
   -   
   Blade   
      
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