If it is traditional publish, one book printed out can serve a very limited reader, that why they have to print a lot, a lot. But if it is an online manga, one scan can serve millions of people.
About cost, how must does it cost to scan a chapter compare to print thousands of copy? Of course it is like nothing at all. And it is the same when compare the cost to maintain the site with the cost to maintain the publisher, as well as distribution cost
Let make a simple calculation, OneManga has more than 4 millions reader, and if a site can have only half of them pay 5$ per month , it make 10 millions $ a month. Not to mention revenue from ads. And what if more and more people will come when manga even more popular
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And here you put restrict to how mush they can read per week, per month, have them pay some hundred $ to read a full manga. Isn't it a bit too greedy?
It should be 5-7$ to read what ever you want in a month
Otherwise, even if they somehow maintain a group agree to pay higher price, the major of this huge manga community will be lost.
As long as the network effect still there, they can make huge profit even if users pay tiny among. But if they lost it, it is game over, remember the 360 yahoo?
The problem here is that, there are too many publishers to share one cake. It should be no problem if there is only one organization of mangaka, i think