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‘Manga on the new Sony Reader’
January 28, 2006 | 12:06 pm
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By David Rothman
From Dan Jackson in the U.K. Thanks, Dan!
I just listened to the first episode of the AnimeOnDVD.com podcast, and among other things they said that Tokyopop has plans to make manga (Japanese comics) available on the new Sony Reader.
This strikes me as a pretty good move, because the sort of people who buy manga and graphic novels tend also to be the kind of people who would have sufficient disposable income to buy the Reader. Though with its native JPEG support, I wonder whether Reader-using manga fans might not simply turn to “scanlations” to avoid the burdens of DRM.
The name is derived from “scans” + “translations.” These are fan-translated versions of manga which are illegally made available for download on the Internet.
Related: Robert Nagle on comics in e format. Also: other articles on the Sony Reader.
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Comments:
“Though with its native JPEG support, I wonder whether Reader-using manga fans might not simply turn to “scanlations” to avoid the burdens of DRM.”
I don’t see why manga fans would be any different than readers of other books in their buying/downloading habits. After all, with screenreader OCR, no DRM’D work is really secure, and scans can be made of any book.