MANGA LIBRARY Z is Closing Due to Visa and Mastercard

Do you know the website MANGA LIBRARY Z? Founded 14 years ago by the mangaka Ken Akamatsu, this site offers manga that are no longer in print by their publishers to be read, with a system that pays the original authors of the work.

MANGA LIBRARY Z is Closing Due to Visa and Mastercard

However, this site has long been facing the wrath of credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard, which started demanding that certain manga be removed from MANGA LIBRARY Z for the site to continue accepting payments through their methods.

It seems that MANGA LIBRARY Z refused to remove these titles, and now the site will close on November 26, as it can no longer sustain itself financially.

In their closing statement, MANGA LIBRARY Z blames the credit card companies, which no longer want to provide their services to them. They even tried to negotiate with these companies but couldn’t reach an agreement.

Although MANGA LIBRARY Z is closing, the people who run it are considering ways to restart the service in some other form; options are being considered.

As a result, several mangaka whose works still generated some income will lose a source of revenue because these operators disapprove of the content in the stories.

via Voce Sabia Anime