Digital Age
So I was having a chat with Robert Brown... as in the Bob Brown of Anime Corner Store . COM, and he was going on about the state of the industry, as i was showing an interest in the brick and mortar route, and he was letting on about the future of anime and manga.
Thing is, with so much digital downloading -- both legal and illegal -- it seems that eventually there may come a day in the not-too-distant-future, that all of our Otaku goodness will come from the net. As in, bye-bye DVDs and BDs, sayonara paperback manga, and Viz Big books... the future may well become an episode at a time, downloaded.
Now, I have seen no real hard-core evidence to support this, but it really does make me wonder what the industry of anime and manga would be like, if we no longer browsed the aisles of a store, and instead got it all digital.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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