Toshiba Encourages Manga Translations

[Mulboyne]

[GuyJean]

(I think the above diagram is missing a BitTorento bubble somewhere..)

.. even sell their own translations of the comics..

Translation? Or interpretation?..

Kenji: I feel so suicidal
Ayako: Me too.. I'm so happy to be miserable with you..

GuyJean 'translation':
Kenji: Let me feel your tits
Ayako: Ok.. But first tie me up and hang me from the ceiling.

Sounds like good 2.0 business sense to me!

GJ

[L S]

So they get a user community, get free translation that attracts more users...sounds like a reasonable biz effort if getting a commited online community is their goal.

[Charles]

So they get a user community, get free translation that attracts more users...sounds like a reasonable biz effort if getting a commited online community is their goal.

I believe the current jargon for making money off your users' labor is "digital sharecropping."

[Molokidan]

This site really has no point, because all the good manga that is out there (which is definitely far from 100% of the TOTAL manga that exists) is already licensed by some random company...so they're uploading a bunch of crap titles to translate and sell back to...no one.