I actually buy almost everything I read online until the end or until the last update even if I just liked it a bit and which got licenced in germany, my home country. I also import english copies of mangas I really liked and if I really really want to have the manga and it didn't get licenced in german or english I even buy a french copy (I know a bit french thanks to school, but just a little - I wished I would have listened in my french classes better but I was too lazy ╮(￣▽￣)╭)
From time to time I even just buy a japanese copy because I could get it secondhand and in good shape.
But I have to admit I have the troublesome hobby of collecting mangas ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ - so I think I am one of the few ones who buy that much ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄
I read manga on this site
Some I dislike, some I like, some I love
Since I can't possibly pay for all the manga I read, I then buy the ones I love exclusively... but even that is a lot :/
I love utaite too! It just I'm more into Ryo-kun and Rib lately so I'm not really following madotsuki or aho no sakata works heheh
woah.. Rib-san voice is amazing.. I like him, too. The way he sing Donut Hole is amazing.. But I am Itou-san, Mafu-chan and amatsuki's fan. I love them... (⌒▽⌒)
i'm with you. i prefer a real book in my hands. i have bought so much manga. but a lot of them go away before i can buy the entire series, or they stop print mid-way. then the reading sites tell me it's licensed. no it's not, only certain volumes were, the end part was not. i own all of pandora hearts, black bird, naruto, deneki daisy, black butler, dogs. several short two volume series. and i got tsubasa and fruits basket, but they have gaps. fruits basket is up to vol.13 i own. tsubasa, is vol.9-16 i'm missing. no one prints them anymore and i'm not a fan of used. then i started my yaoi one a while back: awkward silence, ze, crimson spell, border, ai no kusabi novels, totally captivated, and several other one volume sets. i plan to get a lot more. but everything disappears or is forever moved forward with a release date. i've been trying to get border vol.4 & 5 for 3 or more years now. they always announce release dates, and it never happens. same with the final volume of ze, vol.11. can't seem to get it anywhere. nor can i find all of ai no kusabi the novels. i wish more yaoi were available in paperback
Manga get dropped by publishers because of sites like this. If they can't sell them, they stop publishing them. Manga is a niche market in the US to begin with, so profit margins were already small. Now sites like this erode that market. Look at how many people in this thread state flat out they do not and will not pay for the things they read. This hurts the rest of us who would like to purchase the manga to support the mangaka. If it's not being published, you can't buy it. And with the US manga market shrinking, fewer and fewer things will be published.
Will this eventually hit the Japanese market and reduce the source market? Will Japanese publishers be forced to limit their offerings, meaning less new manga, more series being dropped so that they can't even be scanlated here? We'll see.
I understand that not everyone can afford to buy every manga they read, but this is a for-profit industry and the mangaka needs to make money to pay his/her bills. If they can't make money because everyone is reading for free, they will stop.
i dont know how it is in US, but no worries for japan since japanese usualy dont take anything for granted. they just love books and will paid honestly, they usualy dont go to any sites except to jp site whch they were need to be a member and pay rental fees (¥100+/vol)
and when they need more room for their new books they just toss the old ones to bookoff to get money. (・ω・)ノ
NO judgment, NO debate on issues of fair use or morality, I'm JUST asking: How many of you buy the manga you read here when it becomes available in your country and/or in your language?
Click 'Thumb down' or 'Annoying' if you DON'T buy and 'Thumb up' if you DO buy or have bought in past based on what you read here.
Again, no judgment I'm just curious (and it would help me with my job, so I'd appreciate it). FWIW I own volumes of maybe 10% of what I've read based on my reading it here and would, if given the chance, buy more but I'm guessing I'm probably the exception to the rule. (￣∇￣")