@Robo:
Do these apps cost money and provide US licensed manga?
Yes, except the ones that got a cease and desist from Viz and Yen Press (they just removed the titles and kept the thousands of other series.
Uhh, there's a difference between acknowledging a chapter is going to exist before it is released and talking to the author about the details of his work that should not be released for another few days.
Again, when has MS ever talked about a chapter's contents on their twitter?
That's been the case for quite a while, guess what, the manga industry did nothing. Mangastream did the 2 retarded things you mentioned, "coincidentally" a hole shit storm of stuff starts coming out about taking actions against scans. And even if it wasn't the cause, both of those things are INCREDIBLY retarded.
I agree, but the first "action" by Shueisha was already printed in the magazine before the app came out, and before the tweet. This next one came 2 months after those retarded actions. I don't think it's a coindicence that every single company in the coalition has manga hosted on OneManga, MangaFox, etc..
EDIT: Hold on, you're telling me that 1/6 of the world visits onemanga? I'm gonna call bullshit on that and say that you're skewing the facts here.
It's page views, uniques are closer to 10m, but ad companies pay per impression and that's all that's relevant to the manga companies.