Quote from foreverfree123
And If I did order a series I liked. They eventually just got dropped. Good titles that I have actually been interested in have all been dropped. Whats the point of buying manga if the series is going to get dropped. Some titles I could mention include Rure, Junai Tokkou Taichou! , Apothecarius Argentum and a bunch of other titles that where dropped. All most all other titles I read ,have not been published in English. I would buy the manga if it where available in English. But its not and if they are they have a high percentage of being dropped.
I totally feel your pain for series getting dropped. I didn't read Apothecarius Argentum, but I read a toooon of other titles from CMX, and was (and still am) devastated by DC's cancellation of the imprint. They had really nice taste in manga, and there were a number of series just starting or soon to start that I really looked forward to, to say nothing of the great series they'd been publishing for a long time. I followed Jun'ai Tokkou Taichou! too!! But in the case of CMX as well as that particular title from Tokyopop, the dropping was beyond the publishers' control. I know the CMX staff (an awesome bunch of people, from my experience) would have loved to keep releasing manga for us if they could've. Tokyopop lost the license to Jun'ai back when the Japanese publisher Kodansha pulled all their titles away. But I know (definitely) how upsetting it is when your favourite series gets dropped or put on hiatus, no matter whose "fault" it is.
Still... if we readers don't buy manga, then companies are going to have to keep dropping underselling titles in order to stay in business. Tokyopop looked pretty shaky for a couple years, but by cutting back and focusing more on the better-selling series they had, they came through. They're now very consistent with the time and quality of their releases, offering more variety and licensing series they really believe in (rather than just throwing anything out there). They've even brought back some of the series previously put on hold, when they heard enough fans saying, "We really want this!" (like a double-volume of the josei series Suppli, or shoujo manga Gatcha Gacha, which was halted with one volume to go for a long time, but finally gets its last volume in early November!) So my advice to those who can is to buy the series you want to read, and show the publisher/bookstore that you're interested! Viz and Yen (and Tokyopop in the last year or so) have proven themselves very reliable, and don't often (or ever) drop series.
In response to those who say they don't like official-publications' quality—maybe we read different series, but I think US publishers offer great quality. I have a much harder time enjoying scanlations because (in my experience) the translations rarely flow well, the scans are frequently from low-print-quality magazines, and there are often a ridiculous number of silly-looking fonts distracting me from the actual content of the manga. Plus, staring at a screen just cannot compare to reading pages of a physical book. I'm a book-lover for life!
But this is how it is ... At this place I want to thank all the translation-groups on the internet for giving me the chance to read all the good stuff even though I would never be able to get hold of it in my country! Thank you very much! 
, well at least for me
