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>because their works keep getting pirated by (mostly) Americans who haven't paid him a cent for his work. Say what now? While there may be more English speakers that have illicit copies (because, let's be honest here, there are more English speaking fans of virtually _everything_ than there are Japanese, as America alone outnumbers them 2:1). However, in a vast majority of cases, it's a native speaker that does the initial scanning/sharing, because foriegners simply don't have access to most of this stuff (apart from the pirating methods), even despite Jlist, DLsite, etc. If you've never noticed, the influx of new doujinshi tends to be mirrored across multiple English sites almost immediately following release on the various Japanese sites (and/or Share, Winny, etc), rarely the other way around.
617666 also has a point- imported works of this nature tend to be badly overpriced- this is understandable for things with physical copies, as the retailer has to take a risk on holding stock of an unpopular item (doujinshi are basically the definition of niche markets). But for an electronic work? Sorry, no real excuse there other than the artist trying to make more money. And I can sympathize with that, but it's miles away from "evil gaijin are driving me to poverty."
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