Dood, some of my LJ comments never show up in my inbox! WTF.
Yeah, I really think that most people WILL buy things once they're available. I would be totally fine with disallowing manga that is currently published and available in English to be placed online for free, because I can see that actually taking away from the creator's revenue, but stuff that's not published in English yet? English fans will buy it once it is, but they have to know they like it first, and how are they to find out otherwise except by randomly selecting stuff at Barnes & Noble (unless they're lucky enough to have friends who can recommend things to them)?
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Date: 2011-03-12 01:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, I really think that most people WILL buy things once they're available. I would be totally fine with disallowing manga that is currently published and available in English to be placed online for free, because I can see that actually taking away from the creator's revenue, but stuff that's not published in English yet? English fans will buy it once it is, but they have to know they like it first, and how are they to find out otherwise except by randomly selecting stuff at Barnes & Noble (unless they're lucky enough to have friends who can recommend things to them)?