With artbook I share your feelings (which is why I don't scan my artbooks, apart from the fact that I don't wanna pull them apart). With doujinshis I'm not so sure, because the doujinshi artists don't make a living out of their hobbies. It's more like they want to publish something they enjoy and let other people appreciate it too. With fans overseas, it's really difficult tp buy the doujinshi even if they have the money...
Another thing with PoT is, they recently published a new artbook. The US fans actually all came together and ordered one big shipment of the artbook from amazonJP. So they're willing to pay for it, even though some people will scan it eventually. I haven't seen any WK fans do anything like that, even when the Verbrechen&Strafe artbook came out. They just sit around and ask for scans -_-" I guess Jey was too nice to scan everything since the beginning, so the fans got spoiled *L*
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Date: 2004-03-25 06:37 pm (UTC)Another thing with PoT is, they recently published a new artbook. The US fans actually all came together and ordered one big shipment of the artbook from amazonJP. So they're willing to pay for it, even though some people will scan it eventually. I haven't seen any WK fans do anything like that, even when the Verbrechen&Strafe artbook came out. They just sit around and ask for scans -_-" I guess Jey was too nice to scan everything since the beginning, so the fans got spoiled *L*