Re: It's a record


to <megami@ML.usagi.org>
from "Steven Avery" <stevenav@worldnet.att.net>
subject Re: It's a record
date Sat, 1 Jun 2002 06:37:30 -0700
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chan Wei Lik" <weimin@pl.jaring.my>
To: <megami@ML.usagi.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:51 AM
Subject: RE: It's a record


> >From: Sam the man [mailto:shay@mcs.vuw.ac.nz]
>
> >I still feel rather unclean about getting Afternoon like this. I mean I
> know
> >with each issue that it's only a matter of time before I *do* pay for
> it in
> >tankoubon form, but still...
>
> I on the other hand don't feel the least bit guilty about it. In
> addition to the volumes, I also buy the taiwan magazine that's currently
> running AMG. As a result, I will be paying 5 times more for the manga
> since last year than I usually do. They're getting more than their
> money's worth from me, so why complain if I'm getting to read the newest
> chapters 10 weeks or even 2 years before I can get them otherwise?
>

Likewise... I buy the originals as well.. there's nothing like having the
real deal in hand... The crisp clean paper.. ect

Now, this is _just_ my opinion... but I think there are many many people out
there that feel just like I do about this... But they haven;t been exposed
to AMS!

With this.. they get it in a form that tatalizes them with the story.. and
they go out and start buying once they see they like it.

Of course there are the welchers that read it online and never buy (BOOO!!!
HISS!!! and an upset Belldandy look at them... I hope they feel really
awful).

But I look at the impact that online music trading had on the record
industry before the RIAA decided to make people made with their crack downs.

Before online trading.. the record biz was a roughly 2 billion dollar a year
industry (profits I think) ... and when napster was at it's height.. it had
doubled...and many artists attributed that boom to the huge ammount of
trading going on.. people were being exposed to muisc they'd otherwise never
hear... and profits went insane because people would buy records after
hearing a few songs off them online.

Not saying the manga market will do likewise... but look at the explosion of
popularity that anime has experienced with cartoon network introducing
people to something they never could see before.

Manga has the potential to do likewise I think.

JMO...

I know it probably doesn't help Sam.. but I don't think you or I or anyone
that reads the series... and then goes out and buys it need feel bad...
we're still giving him our sheckles... It's the people that don't pay that
are the problem.

Personally I wish he could publish online.. and have them in a downloadable
encrypted format that only you as the reader could read.... paying him
dirrectly for the privledge of reading his work.

I perfer that the artist get all the money... rather than the pittance left
after the publishing company takes their huge chunk.




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