| not surprising indeed |
| The existence of scanlations are not at fault here. I think most people will agree that reading a tankobon is much more gratifying than reading from some computer screen. and every fan will buy books for that reason. If anything, the scanlations will widen the fanbase. I think the biggest problem is the pricing. The recent increase in price will lead to people investing their limited amount of spending money in other products. the same money can be used for books, comics, dvd's, cd's, games and a lot of other things. and with the current prices, other products are more interesting. ofcourse the real problem will be the vicious circle. higher prices -> less buyers -> smaller prints -> less profit -> higher prices -> ... given the young target audience the prices should be made a lot lower, to have a real manga boom. the japanese publishers are not helping either asking such high license fees. |
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