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Joggeri t1_j1yro9a wrote

Reply to comment by Brichess in How Ukrainian publishers are fighting to survive by livingmybestestlyfe

It’s a survey. Japan and S Korea don’t read much either compared to the world so either manga doesn’t count, or Japan and S Korea; the home of manga and mangwa doesn’t actually read their own media, or the data is trash.

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Brichess t1_j1yv5g1 wrote

I also saw that and it seemed weird to me, I wanted to see how the author might have controlled for other media but it seems there were no controls or methodology beyond asking the question if they "read books" on an online survey which seems like a horrible way to gather any kind of reliable data - especially if the survey was in English. I can only assume though which is why I ask for a methodology that isn't paywalled since I'm not forking over 50 euros.

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Joggeri t1_j1yvp83 wrote

It be much harder to assume anything else. Maybe author chased down millions of people and spied on their reading habits daily and won’t give December 25th presents if they didn’t read, but sent the survey out in elsewhere in Russian and the people of the democratic republic of Congo didnt have google translate.

It was probably for people with internet access in their native language. And the people of Japan and Korea probably read online or don’t count their “comics”.

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