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Hon'ya-chan



Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:38 am Reply with quote
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If you have visited the Mainichi Shinbun’s English site in the last few days, you’ve probably noticed ads for a business called MangaNovel. According to their press release, they are offering a deal to anyone willing to create English translations of the Japanese comics they sell:


Seems like a good way for the fan translations to get some credit.
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Subaru19



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:08 pm Reply with quote
Hon'ya-chan wrote:
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2862

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If you have visited the Mainichi Shinbun’s English site in the last few days, you’ve probably noticed ads for a business called MangaNovel. According to their press release, they are offering a deal to anyone willing to create English translations of the Japanese comics they sell:


Seems like a good way for the fan translations to get some credit.


Seems like a better way for the manga company to get free translators. Confused It sounds a little suspicious to me. It also seems really disrespectful to professional translators. They're basically saying "well we think that fans can do this just as well as a professional, and we won't have to pay anyone (I mean is 50% royalty really anything?) to do it." As someone who respects the art of translation it seems like a step in the wrong direction.
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