6 Bucks per Volume

The fuck were you expecting? It's a Japanese website.

because they know you will pirate their works and have no legal jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute outside japan

They have an international front, too, you know. (golbal.bookwalker), thing is, it's inferior.

The reader is the same, the selection is worse though since the global store only has a handful of Viz titles and the Japanese one seems to cover most major publishers.

My point is, it's basically the same service, and I find the notion of a licence agreement going out of it's way to distinguish those two types of services shady at it's best. But that's the point now, isn't it, international licensing is an absolute sleezeshow.

You not doing a good job of explaining your point because I have no idea what your trying to say.

which brings us back to
>What is it with jap and french websites treating the international market as second class?

This is why almost every website that matters is American. As a German, can name 1 German website that has decent international support. Everything from the french I have seen is absolutely pathetic. It's driving me nuts

Pretty much all licenses are region specific.

European markets for manga generally have much better variety of titles physically though.

>offers an all-you-can-read service

These usually have garbage nobody wants to buy.

I apologize, I'm a bit agitated.
Okay, my issue is:
BW offers two kinds of services: a streaming type of service and an individual purchase one. Only one is available outside of nippon. That sucks from a customer standpoint, naturally. So I think it is only valid to ask "Why do I get the inferior service?", right?

That can have two reasons: Either they could offer it, but do not want to (for example because they do not consider the global market relevant enough), or because they can't (for example because of licensing bullshit).

If the problem is a lack of interest on BW's side, that fucking sucks. And it's okay to be mad at BW for that. If it is a licensing issue (because a lot of modern licensing agreements are in many ways anti-customer), then it's a "hate the game" type of situation.

>That sucks from a customer standpoint
Only for those than speak Japanese well enough to have any use for it and are not in Japan. That's a pretty small group, so why would they give a fuck?

The Crunchyroll has a good few quality series but its been semi-abandoned for years. The apps are broken and most new releases are just the Kodansha Simulpubs.
>a streaming type of service
This is only for light novels as far as I know.
Your not going to get a like for like subscription service because the rights would have to be renegotiated with english publishers and most of the major english pubs are owned by japanese companies anyways.

That is true. Though, the digital market is underdeveloped. I think things like Netflix really were a step forward (although the balkanization of services opens up new issues as well), and I do believe it would be great to see the same progress for manga.
Partially, yes. Yet people throw money at streaming services.

>Yet people throw money at streaming services.
No they don't that literally only applies to TV.

>>offers an all-you-can-read service.. exclusive to Japan
It's not. You just have to make jp account and buy shit in yen. Given that you read nip of course.

>Only one is available outside of nippon.
Huh? I don't get it, I bought Japanese LN (digital) just fine, it's not region specific. Do you mean physical book? Just use amazon, they have better shipping services.

It sucks that the english versions have no all-you-can-read counterpart, which is a much bigger audience. But I'm afraid you people are right and it's as said that
>the rights would have to be renegotiated with english publishers

It's just so frustrating, isn't it.

CR is a real shame. Though they finally updated their fucking media player, so at least anime they get going somewhat.

>This is only for light novels as far as I know.
Ah, that's new to me.

>CR is a real shame
Yup The manga sub was always a red headed stepchild even though it had good titles. The apps were always pretty bad and they gave up on it as a separate sub fairly early on. I still sub but only to read a handful of Kodansha titles.

You can purchase the individual things, but the service of paying a monthly fee so you don't have to buy individual books is not available internationally. You get the content, piecewise, but not in bulk, netflix style

This is also why everyone just rips from Kindle these days, and BW has to offer coins and all kinds of special promotions to keep their customers