Recently, there has been tremendous economic loss in the illegal manga scanlation market, caused by copyright holders who wishes to shut down the competition. This economic loss is mostly the loss of very convenient online manga reading websites. Sites that shut down their online reading service includes Onemanga, mangatoshokan, and mangahelper.

Factor in their failure includes:

1) Copyright law.

2) Angry copyright holders.

3) Failure to build relationship with the actual mangaka.


I propose a website that provide said convenient services, but without angering snotty manga publishers to the point of shutting down our sites, and build relationship and rapport with the people who actually produce the work, the mangaka. In addition, we will compensate the manga translators who make reading manga in English possible. Of course, this will involve bitcoins.


Business model:

There are several possibilities, which may or may not be combined:

1. We can create a paywall for mangaka who wish to put their manga behind and publish say, 30 pages for free as advertisement.

2. We can puts out entire manga for free reading by anybody and share the ads revenue with the mangaka and translators.

3. We could have paying accounts with premium features.

Jobs:

1. Japanese agent: Somebody who is fluent in japanese and is able to woo mangaka and explain bitcoins.

2. Translator agent: Somebody who is able to woo scanlation group and explain bitcoins.  

3. Programmer: Somebody who could write and maintain the web application.


Revenue sharing model:

1. 50% go to mangaka and translators.
2. 50% for everybody else. Alternatively, we could pay Japanese and translator agents for the number of successful recruits they made.



Unresolved problems:

1. No knowledge on how to price bitcoins to yen and vice versa. Yen to BTC exchange market needed.

2. Where do we get a Japanese person who know manga and bitcoins? There is also the issue of no known Japanese bitcoin using community.

3. Mangaka might think bitcoins is crazy. Maybe we could pay them in yen instead of bitcoins? Depend on problem 1.