Here’s an interesting article on Scanlators – folks who nuke their import manga to soften the glue, remove the pages, scan, then photoshop in translations into the manga themselves, then distribute on the internet

Not that I’d ever help anyone *cough* with any *cough* translation projects like this.

Essentially, this article shows the scanlator’s argument that they are brining manga to the USA or other English speaking countries that would never otherwise come. A large portion of what gets released here is initially scanlated; there is a direct connection between the popularity of a scanlatoin, and what gets published.