Ok, I got it now! Well....
I don't think the authors of webtoons understand how vain is their battle against ill.egal sites. I admire their courage to fight back but it won't change anything. Their editors and themselves should seriously focus their efforts on diversifying the source of revenue of successful projects (merch, physical books, international visibility and availability) rather than wasting time and energy on taking down these websites. They could have a business model based on an annual subscription like N.E.T.F. L.I.X so that everyone will benefit from it, especially the young authors with moderate or low success.
They probably don't know that a good amount of their readers would have probably never heard of their work if it wasn't uploaded on such websites. Among those people, a good amount will end up buying coins and read the webtoon legally because they like it a lot and want to give back to the author (I am among those people). But to think that we're gonna spend all our money on ALL the webtoons we're reading is highly delusional. There are dozens of them! It's not that we don't want to but we can't afford it for it all. It's simple math, it just doesn't add up!
Just create an annual subscription model and let us all enjoy these webtoons le.gally!
NO LITERALLY. like m@nta came out recently as r1d1b00ks’s entrance into the international market and their n3tflix-like subscription model of webtoons is so??? good??? like it’s so much more affordable and just a better idea overall??? i hope manta becomes very popular soon so other companies can take notes and release their own n3tflix/m@nta-like subscriptions
Facts. All the works that I support with coins and by buying merch are those that I read here first. I probably would have never cared enough to pay to read them if I hadn't seen how good they are first
You say a good amount of people pay for it.. do you par for it?
I do. If there's one manhwa that is worth my money, it's obviously this one. I first saw it here, then I read up to 10 chapters before buying every single of the new chapters. Among the 15th webtoons that I read regularly, I only pay coins for 5 of them because I like them the most. I wish I could pay for all of them but bying weekly chapters from 15 webtoons will cost me around $60 per month. I mean, seriously, who can afford that? I would be happy to pay a $20/month subscription to L E Z H I N if that guantees access to all their webtoon catalogs! In that case, even the new authors will be paid fairly! They really need to change their business model!
What the hell is going on again? :/