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Originally Posted by evanny
and if they feel like illegal downloading is pushing them down then it is simply because the fan base itself is small. every product suffers from downloads on the internet - so...do what others do and make it more popular so you can get by.
i think its possible that without illegal downloads, anime, manga in western countries could suffer even more. anime dvds are a risky thing to invest your money compared to movies/music since they very often can disappoint and you can't judge anime sieries by trailers like movies, however lot of people after seeing it on the web buy and even spread the word.
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That's a pretty good point, and I can't help but wonder if the fanbase is small why the company didn't do its best to make it more popular. There's TV and radio advertisements, or even cut-outs and posters for the bookstores, and it just seems like if they made more of an effort that they could have had more people buying the manga.
Then again if they didn't translate/censor so much so badly, had a wider variety that catered to more tastes and ages, and didn't have such high prices . . . that might have helped too.
People download music illegally all the time (which I don't condone), but we still have Lady Gaga and JLS and whatever else being blasted all day every day, even small groups that don't have a huge following - heavy metal or foriegn music - still get by incredibly well. Illegal downloading costs money, but it doesn't have
that huge an effect. I feel like the company is merely making excuses . . . illegal downloading, the closure of Borders . . . and that if they did a better job there wouldn't be a problem.