Topic: Manga Fans: Shonen Jump Changing to Digital Publications

I want One Manga back... stupid copyright. :"(

There are something the internet can't replace... manga will always be better in a book.

How so? You can still read it if it's on the internet, and there are plenty of ways you can take it with you. I just don't get the difference.:/

Sounds okay, but I wonder if this succeeds, would they start to do this for full volumes of manga? If they introduced a service to allow me to digitally transfer my books onto something like a kindle, I wouldn't mind. Space is getting limited in my apartment and I have about 60 volumes of manga. If they let you enter in the barcode number on the back and retrieve the digital copy, that'd be nice. (Of course it couldn't be that easy, but it's a dream.)

IDK it's just better to me lol.

I dunno, but I always enjoy any manga more when I actually own it. Maybe something about staring at black and white images on a screen, I dunno the reason.

I know right?

I mean it's nice to have the ability to read a book in an e-reader but the EXPERIENCE just isn't the same as when you have manga or a comic book in your own two physical hands. There is just something different about being able to touch and feel the page.

I like eBooks on my Android Phone and PSP and on my dad's Galaxy TAB just as much as the next person but I always want to be able to revert back to a physical book.

Here is a site that says it a lot better than I can: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_that_paper_books_...

I guess I get it, even though 4 out of 5 don't affect me. Worrying about the feel, for instance, just seems silly to me.:/ I do buy second-hand books, though, but those would be unncessecary if you had Digital books anyways.

@crazyj2312 - They'll still be printing physical manga volumes; granted, it may be months after they're published digitally, but they'll still release physical manga volumes provided that route is still profitable.