@ribbitribbitsaga
I'll reads this in aggregate sites then fuck "official" translations. Anybody worth their salt knows the author (and the artists, the assistants, etc) get a small cut.
Just to preface what I'm going to say, I don't pay for manga or anime.
While I am with you on reading in aggregate sites, you lost me on the small cut thing. Isn't getting a small cut from an official publisher better than getting literally nothing from scanlators? We're all thieves, what scanlators are doing is much worse than what official publishers are doing.
Not trying to put publishers on a pedestal, but scanlators shouldn't be either if we're considering what profit the original author gets from each source.
EDIT: I should also note that I have no idea how international publish (or any publishing for that matter ), royalties, licensing, etc. works. I'm just assuming that the author gets some sort of payment through official publishing.