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1:25 pm, Mar 4 2014
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I suscribe to one magazine because I don't want to wait for the tankobon, and I always buy two BL anthologies. That way I also get to read stories I wuldn't necessarily try out as a tankobon.
If there was a simple way to buy them digitally, I might buy more - the biggest downside is the expensive shipping cost.

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1:09 am, Mar 5 2014
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No, the english published manga magazines are useless to me since 90% of it isn't worth purchasing just for the 10% I want to read. I'd rather read by the volume. I used to so I regret wasting money on it (they're uselessly piled up in a box somewhere in my room).

I'd prefer it is scanlators would pick that up (buying by the volume) if they're not very good with completing a project because often times, the reason for projects ending up getting dropped (in my opinion) is because they take on a bunch from a magazine and eventually it gets lost when trying to get money to buy subscriptions. It just seems like a better guarantee to just do it by the volume. That way, (1) you'd probably be able to finish it with quicker speed and (2) if it's an ongoing manga, you have a good excuse to make readers wait a few months before a new chapter is released. Also, the volumes are a more completed work since the mangaka makes changes and can make it more detailed whereas a magazine may get rushed and have less details....Yeah that's just a little bit of my two cents-it seems so much easier and logical for those types of scanlating groups. There's one group I've been eyeing for a long time and I get so annoyed about their HUGE list of incomplete (over one hundred for just "active" projects) and they keep adding more to it because they scan by magazines and not by volumes....such a waste...

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5:26 pm, Mar 6 2014
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I would buy if there was more manga here.
In like 20 years the only manga i saw for sales was Dragonball and Naruto.

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6:03 pm, Mar 6 2014
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Not interested. If I buy something, I would want to keep/archive it. Magazines are for consumption and are meant to be disposed after usage, so the paper quality/binding tend to be awful. Moreover, I rather not search through the magazines when I want to read something.

Post #635134 - Reply to (#634332) by TundraDweller
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6:17 am, Mar 7 2014
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same here

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5:20 pm, Mar 7 2014
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I've been hearing for a while that manga magazines are struggling with poor sales, so I wasn't expecting that so many people would actually buy magazines if they were available (almost 40% of people!). The number of people who currently buy is as low as expected, though. I feel a little bad, but I'm one of the people who has no interest in buying them.

Magazines certainly do give you a lot of chapters for your money, but I'm not interested in them at all for many reasons, most being about my silly reading habits.
1.) I can't stand only reading one chapter at a time and then waiting. I want to read a few volumes at once, but most magazines make you wait a week or even a month between chapters... no need to put myself through that frustration.
2.) Magazines feature ongoing series, but I prefer to read completed series, because then I can read the whole series in a short span of time.
3.) Even if I didn't mind waiting days between chapters, I prefer to only actively read one series at once, so the way magazines feature a dozen or so series at once is not good for me--I'd buy the magazine for one series, and the rest would just be a waste (both of paper and of money).
4.) Even if I did like to read more than one series at once, there's no way I'd like all of the series featured, so again, part of the magazine would be a waste.
5.) Even if I were to like something enough to buy magazine issues to read it, I'd also like it enough to go buy the tankoubon volumes, so then I'd have paid twice for one thing (waste of money).
6.) Some magazines pepper extremely obnoxious call-out text throughout the chapter, which I absolutely can't stand. You can tell it's the magazine, because the call-outs don't appear in the tankoubon. They're things like "So-and-so is on the ropes!! The outcome of this battle is!?" and "The culprit was actually so-and-so!? No one can say a word!!" and even "Gonna get you!!" that not only sound stupid, but that also treat the reader like a complete moron, because they spell out what the scene in the manga has already made 100% obvious.

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