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Finally! Its been incredibly frustrating with the current model of paying $7-$10 for a manga volume. Gettign caught up with a series can cost over a hundred dol
by cultofmetatron 5y ago
Finally! Its been incredibly frustrating with the current model of paying $7-$10 for a manga volume. Gettign caught up with a series can cost over a hundred dollars vs being able to stream the anime with just crunchy roll or netflix. It just didn't make sense to me that the anime would be cheaper to consume given the relative production costs.
- BasouKazuma 5y agoThat's exactly why I started Azuki! I just want to read as easily as I can watch anime without blind buying a bunch of stuff.
- dagi3d 5y agoI am curious how this pricing model affect the publishers/creators. I understand that from the consumer point of view, it looks quite appealing but wonder if for the players in the other side it would be the same. Is the idea that in the long term there will be a bigger user base paying for this new model which translates into a higher revenue stream than the actual one even if they end paying way less compared to buying those titles individually?
- BasouKazuma 5y agoYou got it right! Since each user is paying less per chapter read, you need more subscribers on the service to surpass the revenue that would have been received with a-la-carte only. And there is a huge opportunity to get more subscribers paying to read than there are people paying under the traditional a-la-carte structure due to the much lower barrier to entry. This is exactly how Crunchyroll pushed the anime industry forward where physical sales are mostly downstream from digital subscription services.