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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U.S. industry doesn't care about it's fans in any market, all they care about is the all might dollar, so don't blame it on the "if the fans bought it then they would pay atention to us" idea, that doesn't work, that never worked, this is america where the mentality of most businesses is "give us your money then go away"