Manga Downloads
Posted on | January 11, 2010 | No Comments
When you visit your local bookstore, you occasionally find people perusing the shelves and peppering the various aisles, but walk by the manga aisle and it?s a freaking sea of readers you have to navigate through?some leaning against the shelves, others crowding around the floor, others trying to get through as they browse. What could account for this phenomenon, the stark disparity between readers in the manga section and readers in any other section of the establishment? Maybe it?s because manga series are so darn long. Accumulating the books of a series together, they?re even thicker than a Harry Potter book or heck, all of the Harry Potter books combined. You might be fooled by their size, but look on the manga shelf and see all of them sitting side by side. Some series take up whole shelves on their own. Also, think about how much money it would take to own all of these series, even just a couple of them. No wonder people are cramming in the aisles trying to read them all at the store so that they don?t have to purchase them.
Or there are others who choose to save a trip to the bookstore through manga downloads. Why make the effort when you can get your manga fix in just a matter of a few clicks? Plus it?s totally free. Still, manga downloads do come with a catch?many manga series are licensed and it?s illegal for them to be distributed without permission. This means that it can be difficult to get manga downloads (legally) for popular series, because those are the ones that are usually licensed. Also, the websites that host free manga can be questionable, bombarding you with ads and sometimes even infecting your computer with viruses. You should make sure that the manga websites you visit are reputable and you should have antivirus software to scan any manga you download. Manga downloads might be convenient, but they?re not worth compromising your computer over.
Wouldn?t it be nice if manga were just free? Not for the companies, because they?d lose a lot of money. On one hand, if you were a manga artist and you honestly cared about artistic expression, would the money matter to you? On the other hand, you need money to make a living. Some artists who distribute their comics for free do get donations from fans, but in general when things are free, most people will choose not to pay.
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