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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2010-11-10 08:59 am

Huh.

So, anyone else get an email from Digital Manga about their new Digital Manga Guild? Looks like they're trying to crowdsource from scanlator groups, and are asking people to sign up and take a test to become (legal) translators, editors, and letterers for them. And you can sign up as an individual or a group, so it looks like they're trying to take advantage of established scanlating groups.

I note that you are paid on sales and not per work item, so the chance of much actual profit is low, low, low, unless you luck into a bestselling project, but it's an interesting idea.
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[personal profile] inkstone 2010-11-10 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I did! I heard about them when they launched last week (or maybe the week before) but I had no idea they'd be recruiting like this.

Of course, I'm confused as to how they got my email but.
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[personal profile] nijibug 2010-11-10 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, I'm confused as to how they got my email but.

This. They sent it to my personal email, which baffles me because it's not one I give out to people I don't personally know. o__o
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[personal profile] nijibug 2010-11-10 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I have no recollection of that website... (and I never sign up for forums with my personal email either). The only places I use this email are here on Dwth, my LJ, my deviantArt, and my Artician accounts, which shouldn't ever release that info to 3rd parties.

Oh, and a bunch of colleges probably have it from my application phase back in 2009.
nijibug: Balsa & Chagum at "kaze ni notte ukabi" (magatama gold)

[personal profile] nijibug 2010-11-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, that's my public email.

I wouldn't put it past them either. :/
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[personal profile] torachan 2010-11-10 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a friend linked me to the page and I signed up. I figure even if I don't make much money off it, it's maybe some pro manga experience I could use to get in elsewhere? I'll take anything I can get at the moment.
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[personal profile] torachan 2010-11-10 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I did both their translator and editor tests. As it turned out, the editor test was the same text that they have on their website that you're supposed to translate if you are sending in a resume to Digital Manga, which I had done a couple times. So I just took my translation (which was like five million times better than the translation they provided to be edited; if translators really do turn in crap like that, no wonder they need editors and adapters) and reworded it a bit so that it looked more like it had been adapted from the translation given rather than translated directly from Japanese, and turned that in. XD Saved me a lot of headache trying to get the translated mess in shape.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2010-11-10 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I signed up! If nothing else I could use the resume credit.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2010-11-10 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
p.s. I wonder if Digital Manga is or will be drawing inspiration from the Distributed Proofreaders of Project Gutenberg? It's the only crowdsourced editing program I can think of, and while it's all volunteer, it's been very successful.

p.p.s. off-topic (unless you count scanlations): Korean webcomics! Much with the scrolling and the full color. I like the hands and facial expressions of Cheese in the Trap

[identity profile] vom-marlowe.livejournal.com 2010-11-10 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I got one. Seemed interesting, but not my thing.

[identity profile] mothoc.livejournal.com 2010-11-10 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
and suddenly this comic I saw today makes more sense!

http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/58-eric-kim

[identity profile] herchuckness.livejournal.com 2010-11-12 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
I got that too, and was intrigued but had the same reservations. Hmmmm.