Thought of the Day: If scanlations didn't exist, would you buy manga?

[http://www.otakunovideo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1209780080_takusmanga-300x225.jpg|300x225px|1209780080_takusmanga]Thought experiment:

Let's imagine that all the scanlation sites shut down tomorrow. No new ones started up.

(Yes, I know, scanlation sites will always exist. That's why this is a thought experiment, not a prediction.)

If you then heard about an interesting manga, would you go to a store and look through it, to buy it?

I ask because I don't read manga online. Oh, I've read a few pages here and there, but I can think of only one series that I read more than a few pages of online. So I don't know how the average reader approaches it.

Is online manga reading a separate market? E.g., if you couldn't read it online, would you just not read it at all?