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Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
In the past few years the manga industry has experienced upheaval, to put it lightly. A number of seemingly unconnected, but pressing, issues have turned into a perfect storm of sudden, dramatic change. Online manga piracy, generally conducted in the open on sites that contain thousands of pages of copyrighted work, finally reached the point where publishers could no longer turn a blind eye to ot