Yes. We do have a history.
I spent a fucking hour reading about where we came from, how corrupted we are, and how amazing Lacialle-sama is.
Not cool. Really not good for my self esteem.
See here:
http://insidescanlation.com/index.htmlSpecial Interest: TalkHowever, I did appreciate the following quote, and reading some interviews:
From this article: "Three years ago, Steve Kleckner, vice president of sales and distribution for TokyoPop, remembers that when he asked a bookstore owner to show him to the "manga," he was directed to a rack of cookbooks. "I had to explain that I wasn't Italian and I didn't mean 'mangia,'" he says with a laugh. "Then he pointed me toward the science-fiction-paperback racks, and there they were -- right next to the porno." In your honest opinion, do you feel scanlation has played some kind of role in helping promoting manga and bringing it from an obscure hobby into the mainstream, especially in the early-2000s?Marco Pavia: Of course scanlation has played a role in brining manga to the mainstream. Even though manga sales have been flat or have declined in recent times, I don't think that means there are fewer people reading manga—it just means that there are fewer people buying manga.
I actually enjoyed reading some of the information about how the Publishers view our shady work.
Any thoughts? ^__^
