OneManga shutting down

[Epsilon]

And all you people claiming that free scanlations got you into the product, great. But let me ask you this:
If all the free scanlations of Negima (or whatever) dried up tomorrow would you stop purchasing the official releases?

I'm not sure where you're going with this. If something like that made sense, shouldn't I also no longer be interested in the Steel Angel Kurumi manga, because there are no official releases anymore?

Let's accept the premise that the free scanlation sold you on Manga X (Negima, FMA, whatever) like has been brought up in this thread. Okay, you're sold now. You like Manga X enough to purchase the official releases. Why are you continuing to read the scanlations? The official releases are coming out because you are buying them. Would you stop buying the official releases because you couldn't read the latest scanlations?
Your argument is that "free samples produce interest" which is true but meaningless. Once again, what you can do is encourage the NA published to provide free samples if you like them that much. Seriously, it works. It IS working. Funimation has all of FMA: Brotherhood, Soul Eater and other anime available for free. The industry is listening. If you support the official releases and don't leap to the pirates they can and do change their ways.

grab a purely text translation and so on and so forth.

What if no text translation exists?

And even then, you're getting into serious usability issues there. Some
people have enough trouble scanning back and forth to watch subtitled
anime. Going back and forth between a paper volume and a webpage is
disruptive enough to the experience that it's probably going to stop
being worth it except for things one is extremely devoted to. Though you
could make an argument for buying the original volume and then reading
the scanslations. Or the other way around.

Learn Japanese then? Or (shocking!) wait for the official English-version release.
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Epsilon