PAID Online Readers For Licensed Manga
15 years ago
Posts: 1354
I've only come across NetComics.com and Emanga.com so far, but they cover limited titles. InfinityStudios.com seems to be dead or at least I can't access it anymore. I'm looking for another paid online reader where I can read licensed manga online and still do the right thing by paying for it. 😃
Any suggestions?
What do people think of such readers anyway? I think it's great and very economically viable - I mean I can afford it better as a customer because buying "reading time" online is cheaper, plus the company also makes some profit off it considering there are no printing costs for the mangas sold online.
I hope more companies start doing this... Here's an interesting article for those who want to know more about e-manga:
http://www.mania.com/does-future-hold-for-emanga-america_article_114351.html
Please suggest any other paid online readers for licensed manga that you may know of.
ETA: Btw, I posted this in the "Manga General" forum instead of "I'm Looking For" since I wasn't looking for a manga but for a reader... If the mods think this thread should be moved though, please go ahead. 🙂 Thanks.
15 years ago
Posts: 46
Quote from tartufo
What do people think of such readers anyway?
Well, in my opinion, I don't like them. Because if I'm going to pay for a book I want it in book form. Even if it is a little more expensive/takes longer to get here. 😉
15 years ago
Posts: 1310
Quote from tartufo
I've only come across NetComics.com and Emanga.com so far, but they cover limited titles. InfinityStudios.com seems to be dead or at least I can't access it anymore. I'm looking for another paid online reader where I can read licensed manga online and still do the right thing by paying for it. 😃
Any suggestions?
What do people think of such readers anyway? I think it's great and very economically viable - I mean I can afford it better as a customer because buying "reading time" online is cheaper, plus the company also makes some profit off it considering there are no printing costs for the mangas sold online.
I hope more companies start doing this... Here's an interesting article for those who want to know more about e-manga:
http://www.mania.com/does-future-hold-for-emanga-america_article_114351.html
Please suggest any other paid online readers for licensed manga that you may know of.
ETA: Btw, I posted this in the "Manga General" forum instead of "I'm Looking For" since I wasn't looking for a manga but for a reader... If the mods think this thread should be moved though, please go ahead. 🙂 Thanks.
So you are willing to pay for digital information that can be duplicated millions of times, without spending a single cent?
what a way to WASTE money... I have a motto, if is not physical then is worthless... that is why I don't pay for content that I have to download, if is not at least in a fucking DVD then it has no base value.
With DVDs I know they had to spend some money in the process, instead of Copy/paste.
15 years ago
Posts: 470
Quote from Lev_Lavi
Quote from tartufo
What do people think of such readers anyway?
Well, in my opinion, I don't like them. Because if I'm going to pay for a book I want it in book form. Even if it is a little more expensive/takes longer to get here. 😉
I agree with this. And also, just based on Net Comics (I haven't looked into Emanga.com), but the quality of mangas/manhwas they license is pretty low. $0.25 a chapter is pushing it sometimes. It's like, if it would sell in book form for sure, those guys wouldn't be able to license it and a bigger company (like Viz) would get it instead. This isn't to say that every series they have is crap, far from it, but the percentage of crap is much, much higher from them than it is from the bigger book-only publishers. So that's another reason not to bother (at the moment) with digital publishers. When the digital publishers start getting the really good stuff, then I'll look into it (but I would still want to have it in book form eventually).
