Please keep translating... I buy when I can, and I almost always buy manga I know I love, because I've read a scanlated version. Or at least I buy manga by mangaka I know I enjoy - again, because I've read some of their work unofficially (sugar-coated way of saying illegally, I know).
It's often hard to find official translations, or prohibitively expensive if people have to have them shipped from overseas. I'm in Australia so I can pretty much only afford to order from sites like Book Depository with free shipping. But I do love buying officially to support mangaka - I recently bought NightS and I was so, so happy to a) own it, b) support Yoneda Kou, one of my absolute favourites and c) encourage publishers to do more official English releases, and stockists to make them available for me.
I have to admit though, I'm talking about buying hard copies. I understand people's dislike that authors aren't getting paid when people could quite easily support them by paying not-a-huge-amount for online access to official translations of their work.
Same here. I live in the center of Europe. here it is almost impossible to get the official translation in english. It is frustrating. So I depend on sites like mangago. But I am always happy when a official translation is released in my country.
Please keep translating... I buy when I can, and I almost always buy manga I know I love, because I've read a scanlated version. Or at least I buy manga by mangaka I know I enjoy - again, because I've read some of their work unofficially (sugar-coated way of saying illegally, I know).
It's often hard to find official translations, or prohibitively expensive if people have to have them shipped from overseas. I'm in Australia so I can pretty much only afford to order from sites like Book Depository with free shipping. But I do love buying officially to support mangaka - I recently bought NightS and I was so, so happy to a) own it, b) support Yoneda Kou, one of my absolute favourites and c) encourage publishers to do more official English releases, and stockists to make them available for me.
I have to admit though, I'm talking about buying hard copies. I understand people's dislike that authors aren't getting paid when people could quite easily support them by paying not-a-huge-amount for online access to official translations of their work.