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1000+ i buy most of the time 1 volume each week.
But still i know the pool is new but 37.7% never bought any goods that's kind of sad.

Really? Because spending over 1000$ a year on things you will read or watch once, maybe twice, isn't just kind of sad... it is ridiculous.

We pay a little over 170$ a year for Netflix, and that is how I watch most of my anime. (With an exception to Hulu, which is ad-funded.) I don't read manga much anymore though, so it's 0$ when it comes to that.

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1000+ i buy most of the time 1 volume each week.
But still i know the pool is new but 37.7% never bought any goods that's kind of sad.

Really? Because spending over 1000$ a year on things you will read or watch once, maybe twice, isn't just kind of sad... it is ridiculous.

We pay a little over 170$ a year for Netflix, and that is how I watch most of my anime. (With an exception to Hulu, which is ad-funded.) I don't read manga much anymore though, so it's 0$ when it comes to that.

I can't speak for everyone, but I only buy manga that I love enough to read many times. Same for books and movies. Why, every manga volume I own I've already read at least two or three times online before. So I don't think spending money on it is silly at all 😀 I guess for someone like you, whom I assume only reads things once or twice, it wouldn't be worth it to buy, but that won't be true for everyone.

Those whom excuse themselves for not buying any manga by saying that there aren't any good mangas in their country / region / city sound quite lazy (I could understand if it was because of lack of money). You can order pretty much anything over the internet. Amazon, anybody? I live far out in the country, in a country not taken much by anime or manga - but I know the wonders of internet shopping. Oh, it's magic. 😛

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1000+ i buy most of the time 1 volume each week.
But still i know the pool is new but 37.7% never bought any goods that's kind of sad.

Really? Because spending over 1000$ a year on things you will read or watch once, maybe twice, isn't just kind of sad... it is ridiculous.

We pay a little over 170$ a year for Netflix, and that is how I watch most of my anime. (With an exception to Hulu, which is ad-funded.) I don't read manga much anymore though, so it's 0$ when it comes to that.

I can't speak for everyone, but I only buy manga that I love enough to read many times. Same for books and movies. Why, every manga volume I own I've already read at least two or three times online before. So I don't think spending money on it is silly at all 😀 I guess for someone like you, whom I assume only reads things once or twice, it wouldn't be worth it to buy, but that won't be true for everyone.

Seconded. I also only buy manga that I know I want to read several times (though, when I was younger, I just bought any manga I could for the money I owned). I also like buying manga with artwork that inspires me.

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Seeing the "none" take up nearly 40% is rather sickening...seriously, this isn't just mangas it's anime/manga goods and around 40% of the people aren't even willing to spend a single cent in an entire year to support the creators?

This is exactly what I was thinking. "none" means you don't buy even one manga book, one anime dvd, one freakin bleach keychain.....

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[quote=darkraiders]1000+ i buy most of the time 1 volume each week.
But still i know the pool is new but 37.7% never bought any goods that's kind of sad.

Really? Because spending over 1000$ a year on things you will read or watch once, maybe twice, isn't just kind of sad... it is ridiculous.

We pay a little over 170$ a year for Netflix, and that is how I watch most of my anime. (With an exception to Hulu, which is ad-funded.) I don't read manga much anymore though, so it's 0$ when it comes to that.

I can't speak for everyone, but I only buy manga that I love enough to read many times. Same for books and movies. Why, every manga volume I own I've already read at least two or three times online before. So I don't think spending money on it is silly at all 😀 I guess for someone like you, whom I assume only reads things once or twice, it wouldn't be worth it to buy, but that won't be true for everyone.

Sorry, my mindset pretty much follows the rule that re-reading something too many times cheapens the novelty of it. But that is probably because it does.

But if you can be endlessly entertained by reading the same book 5 times or watching an episode of a show over and over again, by all means, blow your money on it. I'm sure that money would just be wasted if it went to something useful, like charity or volunteering.[/quote]
For me buying manga is often the same as buying art books, fashion books, books about drawing techniques etc. (falling into a category of stuff that can be read several times, and studied carefully). The art is often more than 2/3 the reason why I buy a manga. But I'm also pretty serious about drawing.

But other than that, saying that rereading something will cheapen the experience is pretty narrow-minded from my point of view. If it is a seriously well-crafted piece of work, rereading it will add more layers to the experience, in my opinion, like with other medias. It just has to be a really good piece before it may contain these layers.

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Sorry, my mindset pretty much follows the rule that re-reading something too many times cheapens the novelty of it. But that is probably because it does.

But if you can be endlessly entertained by reading the same book 5 times or watching an episode of a show over and over again, by all means, blow your money on it. I'm sure that money would just be wasted if it went to something useful, like charity or volunteering.

Hey, hey, chill. There's no need to insult my habits just because we happen to think differently ^^' I'm actually a pretty frugal spender overall, not that it matters in this discussion. Are you saying that you don't spend money on things you find pleasurable? Seeing a movie, going out for drinks with friends, maybe saving up for a nice TV or a vacation? Manga just happens to be one of the things that I spend money on. Other people spend money on different things. Nothing wrong with that.

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Sorry, my mindset pretty much follows the rule that re-reading something too many times cheapens the novelty of it. But that is probably because it does.

If you like something then you should want to read/watch/play it over and over. How does it 'cheapen the novelty'? Really, I feel sorry for somebody who feels that they can't enjoy something more than once. Do you only eat food you like once in your life?

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Seeing the "none" take up nearly 40% is
Manga may not be important enough for you to spend even a cent on it (which begs the question, why even read it if it's not important?), but what about the publishers and the MANGAKA who spend their lives making manga so they can live?

I just read them to kill time when I'm bored. but if I really had to start paying for them to read, without any way to get them free, then I would stop reading them completly.

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Seeing the "none" take up nearly 40% is
Manga may not be important enough for you to spend even a cent on it (which begs the question, why even read it if it's not important?), but what about the publishers and the MANGAKA who spend their lives making manga so they can live?

I just read them to kill time when I'm bored. but if I really had to start paying for them to read, without any way to get them free, then I would stop reading them completly.

This mindset is saddening.

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Seeing the "none" take up nearly 40% is
Manga may not be important enough for you to spend even a cent on it (which begs the question, why even read it if it's not important?), but what about the publishers and the MANGAKA who spend their lives making manga so they can live?

I just read them to kill time when I'm bored. but if I really had to start paying for them to read, without any way to get them free, then I would stop reading them completly.

This mindset is saddening.

Yeah... 😐 It is, indeed.

Woah sheesh, I spent so much of my parents' hard-earned money and I'm so ashamed of it. And that's just considering manga only.

Thanks for the reality check. I shall go out and get a job.

Like some, I like reading things over if I really enjoy it. Besides, reading on the Internet isn't supporting an industry I enjoy very much. Mangaka work their butts off every week or so to bring out stuff we love to read. They should be rewarded for their awesomeness, not be left with nothing because people don't want to pay 7-9 dollars for a good book.

Also, I'm one of those types of people who likes to hold the actual book, not look at a screen. Besides, Reading an actual book is faster, and if I did want to read something over, I can, even if my Internet is down. XD

People should hopefully come to understand that if you don't purchase these types of things (manga, anime, heck even plushies and stuff), we'll never have stuff sent to Western shores or even be translated in different languages. Support the industry, my gosh!

I don't mind paying for goods/services that I use. God knows, I spend a lot of money on non-pirated, licensed software.

I'd rather support authors directly, rather than the industry for publishing/printing. That being said, they should consider changing their business model. Imagine how successful a search engine would be if it did not generate ad revenue, but it charged users per use? The current env just doesn't support that kind of business model, and it's too much to ask people to change. It's easier to have the business/industry itself change.

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Seeing the "none" take up nearly 40% is rather sickening...seriously, this isn't just mangas it's anime/manga goods and around 40% of the people aren't even willing to spend a single cent in an entire year to support the creators? I guess I should be happy that at least 60% of us are supporting the series we love, yay! 😃

It's also asking per year, not "this year", so really? That many people on MU really haven't bought a single anime/manga related item in their entire lives? Makes me just think that a good chunk of the MU community are ungrateful self-centered freeloading pirating creatures. >:-(

I can understand it if there was a reason like because there was nothing good worth buying in your region but at least post ** why** you spent "none" in your entire life instead of just clicking none since you're a freeloader.

I average anywhere from 50-700 per year for the years I've been interested in the industry and it depends on availability and selection of series. Some years it's just a few books and some years it adds up with figures, games, music and others.

How about this? If there were no sites like mu, scanlating sites, pirate hosting sites (they synthesize all collections together on a fast server with no downloads), no anime translators, no anime posters, then how much people will read manga or watch the anime? A lot less. Many who pay probably begin as these freeloaders. Sure, people may watch naruto and such on tv, but they probably wouldnt get farther that that. Like any serious hobby, manga is expensive. And not all of us have jobs.
And just because we like something, doesn't mean that we pay for it. Yes, it is possible to like manga yet not pay. It's selfish, not exactly justified, but yes. It does happen. Look at the music industry. Look at video hosting sites. Look at fake brands. Thing is, a lot of us read manga because its free. If it wasn't free, we wouldn't read it. In other words, we would have never started reading. The mangakas don't get money either way. But since we do read, it widens the fanbase, which isn't quite so bad.
I'd also like to mention that some of us are only interested in the manga and not related goods. But the majority of active mu users probably aren't that type, no?
And no, I actually own a few books of manga. But why does it count as none? Because my parents bought it for me. Directly. It never was my money.

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