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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
I'm not saying commercial translations or fan translations are better, but fans, especially comic book fans, will find ways of getting what they want if the official routes don't meet demand.
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That's why they need to at least compete on quality with the pirate ones. Like with ebooks, the publishers have already given the pirates a 10 year headstart.
And while it's true that it was the pirate community that created enough demand to make it worth the publishers putting out legal versions, if the quality isn't as good with the legal ones I can't really see many people switching.
It's not like there is much of a mainstream audience for comics like there is with prose books, so people interested in digital ones will already be using the pirate versions. Especially since until a couple of years ago the publishers turned a blind eye to it.