Exactly. Sometimes business models just aren't sustainable! If $10 manga with crappy translations and not much content isn't...well, sucks to be them, but suing the scanslation aggregation sites isn't exactly going to fix that, and is just going to antagonize their pool of customers.

Seriously, I am surprised that there aren't any companies that have tried selling digital manga from the point where the scanslators stopped while also selling hard copies from the beginning. I mean, as it is, when things get licensed and hard to find, the fans just...drift away and suddenly the market that they've hoped to tap into is reduced dramatically. There's this weird gap between using the scanslators to build themselves a market and realizing that they want to retain this market that just makes me wonder what they're even thinking.

And yeah, I really can't help but think that if they do manage to seriously damage scanslation distribution, they're going to seriously hurt their market in the long run. Right now my impression is that their business model is mostly built around people buying token manga of the stuff they really love and mostly getting their material off scanslations. If they kill that, they're suddenly going to have to make the material they provide practical for following whole series on or lose their market. If that happens, I would place serious money on that killing most the companies in the industry, because making that kind of fundamental shift in a business is hard.