Dark Horse's anthology series Dark Horse Presents has been through a number of incarnations at this point: First as a print comic that ran from 1986 to 2000 and premiered some of the most outstanding work around; then as a digital comic at MySpace (yes, it's still there) that ran online for free and was collected
into trade paperbacks.
Many of these titles have been or will soon be collected
into trade paperbacks, making the free issues the perfect way for readers to sample new Image Comics titles before purchasing collections.
Dark Horse started publishing it in 1994, one chapter at a time as a monthly comic, then gathered
it into trade paperbacks.
Maybe later they collect the digital copies
into a trade paperback.
«These are guys whose names you know, and they are losing money hand over fist in hopes that somewhere down the road there may be a TV deal or a movie deal or maybe they can last long enough to get those comics
into trade paperback form, in which case maybe they'll break even there.
Not exact matches
Three: The Iron Man 2020 serial I wrote for Marvel Comics has now been collected alongside other tales of Arno Stark
into a lovely little
trade paperback.
For example, the author client's book was converted
into an 8-1/2» X 11»
trade paperback workbook using Amazon Createspace.
Penguin intends on tapping
into its other imprints such as Berkley and New American Library to distribute the books in hardcover,
trade paperback, and ebooks.
A Prediction: Since the focus this year for WMG Publishing is getting more and more books
into trade paper, WMG Publishing will be making far more money from
trade paperbacks by the end of 2012 than from the books published electronically.
This list is further broken down
into fiction, nonfiction, children's, hardcover,
trade paperback, and other designations.
To put this
into perspective, hard covers and
trade paperbacks dropped 2 % and mass market
paperbacks dropped 3 % (assuming I'm reading the article right).
A three hundred page word document does not translate
into a three hundred page
trade paperback.