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Originally Posted by Koir
Just read about that myself a bit ago. While reading the article, the first thing that came to mind was "Good job, scanlators and freeloading dorks reading in the bookstore. You've destroyed an entire artistic medium in North America and the world. Good. Bleeping. Job."
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I think there's more to it than that. The Borders part could have much to do with it. All of those stores closed near me (Wrigley Field) and I have to go downtown to go to an actual bookstore. Most things seem to be sold online or are in digital format nowadays. The fact that a few people were reading for free can't be the main cause, though you see that happening in Japan all the time and they still seem to put out pulp manga like crazy. Licensing issues was probably the other main issue.
Not that I'm into anime as much as I used to be, but I don't seem to see that much out there anymore either. I wonder if licensing and distribution has been a problem there too.