Quote from strixflash
When did scanlators started asking for money? They never say that you have to pay for reading.
If you hate scanlators then why are you here? They are show-offs? Then what about you? Are you trying to gain attention by saying all this crap?
There are thousands of series which will never be published in english and its thanks to scanlators that we get to read those gems.
You will learn Korean & Japenese? Then why are you wasting your time here,go learn different languages.
Scanlators are not looking for respect from trash like you. There are people who understands the value of scanlators.
You are the one who is looser here starving for some attention.
Most of them ask for donations...
I'm not trying to gain attention I'm just telling the truth... and of course there are lots of titles that will never be published in english, but it's all the scanlators fault...
Most of the people will not buy a manga who is available for free only, so why will publishers bother publishing it if they will lose money
So what scanlators do is not right... If you really want to promote a manga you like you could do that without prejudicing publishers and authors...
For example you could create a website about the manga you like and you could even make available a
couple of chapters of the manga you like online, so people can read it and get an idea about the story and art of the manga... and then when you have a certain amount of people who have read the manga and visit the website... The community of the website and you do a proper demand to a publisher... he will most likely publish it because there is a demand and because he knows almost for sure that he will not lose money...
But like scanlators scanlate a manga till the end, publishers will only concentrate their efforts in blockbusters because scanlators have killed the market for the other manga series by scanlating it till the end... People won't bother buying a manga who is completely available for free online and publishers won't bother translating it because they will lose money.
So the way scanlators do things is no good, this is not the proper way to do things... What scanlators do is bad and, nowadays, most of them only scanlate because, like I said before, they want their moment of glory and not because they love and want to promote manga.
So I repeat
scanlators are nothing more than a bunch of losers in need of some attention and thieves who can't even do a proper work.PS: I will not learn Japanese and Korean. I learn Japanese and Korean (but not 24/7) which is slightly different ... And I'm wasting my time here because I'm trying knock some sense into your head.