American anime industry

The chair of AX says the attendees of Anime Expo is averaging about 20 percent annual growth,
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/07/apop.DTL

but Ask John mentioned "The contemporary American anime industry is in dire straights. Evidence suggests that many of America's anime distributors are struggling financially."
http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1123

What's this all about?

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unless everything has changed in the last month, the last time I looked up fansub stuff was last month, this is completly untrue, fan sub groups still for the most part stop distribution when licensed, in my experience it is the other way around, they have STARTED doing that where they used to only say they would