Quote from azurenight
Unlike so many people, I really like ebooks because it means that I won't have to give up my books when it comes time to move( I move a lot), and I'm still legally supporting the authors. The only things I don't like about ebooks is geo restrictions and the price; I want to buy any ebook I want anywhere in the world and ebooks should not be the same price of physical books.
I do buy manga in its online format, and I'll probably continue to do so, because I want to support the industry in NA and the mangaka. I just wish they were freaking less expensive(WTH $9 for an emanga you can't even resell!!??). But if there are scanlations of a series I want to read, I'll read those instead andmaybe buy the localized version when I have extra money and I can't come up with anything to buy.
Publishers should stick with localizing manga in ebook format that has not been scanlated.
I do buy manga in its online format, and I'll probably continue to do so, because I want to support the industry in NA and the mangaka. I just wish they were freaking less expensive(WTH $9 for an emanga you can't even resell!!??). But if there are scanlations of a series I want to read, I'll read those instead andmaybe buy the localized version when I have extra money and I can't come up with anything to buy.
Publishers should stick with localizing manga in ebook format that has not been scanlated.
The whole ebook market is still young and small despite the many publishers jumping in. But it's growing fast. Eventually resources will get shifted to here and away from books and hopefully it will become less expensive to buy them. Unless demand for them increases by the same amount.
Maybe I'm crazy but has anyone ever though about owning both a book and an ebook at the same time? Or buying the book and then scan the pages to put on your PC (much like buying a CD and importing it to iTunes which makes it so you own both the CD and MP3) ?