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I think you came to the right place to talk about your project. Because here roams people who love manga a lot and are very addicted to it.
That's true xD I'm receiving much more good answers here than on others forums xD
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I think you've heard this before but life is cruel. What I mean is, it's next to impossible to ever satisfy e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e needs. Seriously, don't try it.
I would suggest you to do more investigation on this subject and explore more deeply the needs and capacities of these two parties. Your ideas have a lot of ground for improvement. And there are goals you need to give up.
I know I can't make everyone happy, my aim is to make
everyone involved in the project happy xD It is really important that the two partners will be in harmony or it will quickly crumble.
They can't get all they want (eg: lots of control for Publishers; access to all the manga for Scangroups; everything free for Users), but I can provide a nice common ground that I'm sure will satisfy them ^^ And if I'm wrong about it, well... it just fails! But I'm confident xD
But yes, I know the project can be enhanced, that's why I'm talking about this since now even if there's not much concrete yet xD I want to make this as perfect as I can and discussions with other fans & scangroups sure help
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1. If you charge money per view, you won't get the same amount of people to read hence destroying the main motive for scanlators to work for.
It's not exactly per view, but per chap. Once you buy a chap, you can read it whenever you want and even download it! But yes, the total amount users could be less, but I think they will be enough ^^
I don't agree with the scanlators motive though. In my humble opinion, they scanlate to share their passion with others AND let the manga thrive! I'm confident that if there is a legal way to do so, one that not damage the mangaka at all, they will choose this one instead of the usual gray area. The majority of them have strong ethics and remove licensed contents right away. It will be basically the same thing
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I agree and that's why I will not hire them xD They will be partners and collaborators as much as the Publishers and will be granted total freedom, so they can let it be a simple hobby. I think I wrote this on the first post, but I understand passion and know how easily spoiled it can be. My first priority is to keep scanlating fun and rewarding!
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3.Maybe if you do some research on Korean Webtoons translated to English Officially allowed you'll see how the reactions would be like.
The only site I know is LINE/Webtoons, but its focus is on self-publishing and there isn't any publisher involved. They are the main publisher xD Much easier :'(
Could you please point me to some resource? ^^
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Personally I've been thinking about doing something similar to this for years. So I understand your feelings about the situation.
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Well good luck. This is also a dream of mine not matter what. So if there's something I can help with, I will
It's refreshing to find other people with the same dream, that's great! xD And sure, anyone can help the project, you can talk about it with your friends and perhaps invite them to join the discussion ^^ Another big help will be PM me a list of scangroups you like, if you can include some way to contact them in it will be great! I will contact them right away and try to take them on board, or you can do this yourself if you want to help really a lot XD
You can also PM me your email, so that when the first prototype of the site come online, I can notify you directly -w-
Plus anything else you can come up with xD
For example, do you ever tried to contact some publishers and the likes? Have you done some past research that you think could aid the project? Do you see any problems that I haven't tackled yet? Do you have a better solution than the one I've proposed?
I'm greedy for information, anything will help!