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how could it make reading manga easier?? with physical manga you can read it while on the toilet. and you don't need to be online..
just as for scanlation teams, Online manga readers only help popularize the manga... but for publisher, they are both a gift and a curse ^_^
Well for one not every series is translated and not everyone that reads them can read the originals in the first place. Many of my favourite series are not licensed in English and I can't read Japanese. Second a volume of mange needs to wait for each chapter to come out and then be compiled so you are weeks behind the story while the internet allows you to keep up with the most popular ones as they are released in their serialization Oh and they don't cost twelve bucks a book. for series like Bleach and Naruto that reaching over 600 bucks just to have physical copies of that series.
i know that without mange readers I would not have even heard of many of my most favorite mangas like Ares and MX0.
This was all possible loooooong before online manga readers even existed.
Manga Readers making manga 'more accessible' is a non-argument, sure they might make it easier to sample before buying/downloading, but we're talking about 15MB per chapter on average here... It's faster to simply download and look at them to use those annoying readers.
P.S. Another mayor annoyance is that most readers (actually pretty much all of them) don't support full-screen reading all that well (i.e. fill screen)... Something that has been possible natively on computers since the dawn of graphics.
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