OneManga.com, the largest source of Manga Scanlations (scans of translated manga) on the Internet for all manganese remove content from their website.
The announcement was posted on Thursday, suddenly (July 22) on the site home page, the webmaster of a manga, Zabi. He said the changing attitude of publishers scanlations, and his decision to meet their needs.
Only a few weeks earlier made 36 major Japanese manga publishers and several American publishers “a coalition of” rampant and growing problem “of fighting scanlations. Among them are large publisher Square Enix, Viz Media and Tokyopop. The coalition fears that scanlations sites “now hosts thousands of fake titles advertisers and / or membership fees to creators’ while the cost of earning foreign licensing opportunities legitimate and illegitimate cannibalize sales to undermine.”
The coalition has also reportedly threatening legal action against 30 scanlations pages.
Square Enix has announced it is launching its own online manga site in the fall, which will be made available to visitors from North America and France. But it will not free, such as the creation of a paid digital distribution channel “to” better meet the diverse needs of customers worldwide ‘goal. Square Enix is best for the popular game Final Fantasy series known.
One manga was rank #935 from 1000 most popular websites of Google, its data obtained in May of this year. It notes that a manga 4.2 million unique visitors and 1.1 billion page views this month.
So this is the end of a manga? Unlikely. Although the site may offer visitors the translated scans, making them so popular, they already have a thriving community forum with over 100,000 members. They are also very focused on the development of many results from Google, the huge potential for an urban audience has the same rank.