And I don't
think about digital comics day in, day out, you clown.
That made
me think about the digital comics market as a whole, and how these exclusives would affect the other big digital distributor, iVerse.
Viz is the largest U.S. manga publisher, and when it came time to
think about digital comics, they decided to go it alone, developing first an iPad app, then a website, then apps for the iPhone, Android devices, and Kindle Fire.
Thinking about digital comics digital comics digital comics day in and day out has given you a distorted perspective.
Not exact matches
Below, he talks
about why Archie
Comics has been so active on the
digital comics front, how he
thinks digital comics will affect traditional retailers, and how the company will continue to push the boundaries of good ol' Riverdale.
Now when creators can start making enough money off of
digital - only
comics to
think about them in more abstract ways, we may see some really interesting products show up.
TFAW.com: What did you
think when you first heard
about the possibility of reading
comics in a
digital format?
After thanking their Patron - sponsored books of The Ten - Year Turnaround, Removed, and How to Drive Your Next Car Deal, Sheridan and Jim discussed news
about a new app making waves in Croatia, a surge in creativity for
digital comics, changes in Amazon's pre-order policy, how KU free runs may not be as lucrative as you
think, and why rented books could become a big deal.
Waid doesn't just write
comics, he
thinks hard
about making them, and Thrillbent is both a place to read
comics and a place to talk
about the
digital comics model.
The
comic book companies need to
think about what they're doing because by going
digital, they'll be putting a lot of people out of work.
A number of the experimental
digital - first
comics are free, and creators such as Thrillbent's Mark Waid have said up front that they want to figure out the model first and then
think about monetizing it.
When you
think about selling kids»
comics via
digital media, who do you
think is the customer — the parents / gatekeepers or the kids themselves?
But there's more to it than that: ComiXology wants you to
think about giving
digital comics as gifts, and the best way to get you to gift a
comic is to give it to you for free — and let you give it away for free.
At the same time, a heap of
comics publishers, biggie and petite, has gone
digital in parallel with print — and the rest are probably planning something app-wise or
thinking about it.
The more I
think about it, the more it makes sense that
digital comics as an idea / initiative / solution, deserve support.
Digital comics The manga publisher Kodansha Comics recently rebooted its digital program with a new emphasis on e-books; I talked to director of publishing services Dallas Middaugh about the thinking behind the new dir
Digital comics The manga publisher Kodansha
Comics recently rebooted its
digital program with a new emphasis on e-books; I talked to director of publishing services Dallas Middaugh about the thinking behind the new dir
digital program with a new emphasis on e-books; I talked to director of publishing services Dallas Middaugh
about the
thinking behind the new direction.
... and it's a good one: When creators who matter to me start really
thinking about the in - app or cliented
digital comics form of Comixology or graphic.ly, and start doing,...
If you are
thinking about starting a
digital comic or a webcomic, the financial realities of the market are laid out clearly for you in this book, and I
think you'll find that it is an excellent roadmap towards your own success.
Beyond that, since I left comiXology, I've been spending my time doing
digital publishing consulting work in and out of working on
Think Tank, Relaunch and the next
comic experiment... but Daniel Govar and I aren't quite ready to talk
about that one yet.
We had a good talk (in English, since my Norwegian is rather limited)
about some of the ideas behind The Empty Kingdom and my wider
thoughts and experiences of
digital comics as a whole.
The more I
think about it, the more I
think that
digital comics is something that could move
comics culture from an inclusive subculture to a general part of culture, like books or movies.
One thing I've been
thinking about recently... I'd argue that, for creator - owned properties right now, the single most PROFITABLE sales channel for selling
digital comics is actually KICKSTARTER.
I'm optimistic
about digital comics because I
think they have some CHANCE to fix that problem.
PERAZZA: Just to follow up on what you said
about digital being second to print, do you
think that's a general attitude for readers or do you
think it's something specific to
comic book fans?
So I started to
think about combining what I was doing in my own time with what I was learning, and trying to make
digital comics that were also hyperfictions, or also had this element of choice to them.
Last week, Apple's iBook Author got
comics creators
thinking about making their own
digital graphic novels, manga publishers continue to work on improving
digital distribution and Marvel promised big
digital comics news.
Digital comics Corrina Lawson pens an open letter to DC Comics concerning the publisher's recently announced digital pricing model: «I'm not saying DC should put up their new books for free — I can see all kinds of piracy problems plus the issues with cutting into comic retailers profits — but DC should seriously think about putting up a large amount of its backlist for digital distri
Digital comics Corrina Lawson pens an open letter to DC
Comics concerning the publisher's recently announced
digital pricing model: «I'm not saying DC should put up their new books for free — I can see all kinds of piracy problems plus the issues with cutting into comic retailers profits — but DC should seriously think about putting up a large amount of its backlist for digital distri
digital pricing model: «I'm not saying DC should put up their new books for free — I can see all kinds of piracy problems plus the issues with cutting into
comic retailers profits — but DC should seriously
think about putting up a large amount of its backlist for
digital distri
digital distribution.
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Random
thought - how
about digital comics for sale on XBLA / PSN?