Comments on: Save the Comics Industry, Go Digital!

By: Magazine Ecommerce

Magazine Ecommerce — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:12:52 +0000

Well it’s kinda a general fact, every commercial stuff that want to be saved should be digitalized, otherwise it’ll become history

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:47:20 +0000

I too have recently started the .cbz thing and I’m enjoying the opportunity to catch up and not get stressed out about tie-ins and what not (particular with Civil War). So I particularly love that aspect your ideas.

Seriously, have you written an open letter to Wizard, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, et al? This seriously needs to be considered.

By: No Sheep » DRM is Cracking

No Sheep » DRM is Cracking — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:23:21 +0000

[...] Rights Management or DRM is a concept I have always opposed. In general I feel it is expensive and complicated for vendors to sustain, while relatively simple [...]

By: Marc Sparks

Marc Sparks — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:37:39 +0000

With or without DRM is an argument best left to lawyers, but frankly illegal duplication is a function of price.

Make the price attractive, make the package attractive and you will attract customers and create a revenue stream that wasn’t there before.

Also there are many readers like myself who live outside the US who find it imposible or prohibitively expensive to acquire back issues.

A complete run Avengers, or Justice league, in a well presented DVD case, with some additional editorial material (perhaps weblinks to interesting fan sites) would be very attractice at say U$20 or even U$30 even once it was translated to my local currency.

By: Marc Nathan

Marc Nathan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:59:32 +0000

These are some really great ideas. I got back into comics after almost 15 years not reading a single issue. Digital scans have allowed me to catch up, but I still buy dead tree versions of new books.

Somebody at Slave Labor must be listening to you:

http://store.slavelabor.com/

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:58:00 +0000

Awesome, exact same experience and exact same ideas for the industry. Long live the .cbr comics and please implement them. We should try to get these thoughts to Marvel and DC, etc. Thanks.

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:50:27 +0000

Yeah, I went from subscribing to 2 titles, to having 5+ on a weekly pull list at the local comic shop…

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:01:56 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more. I came back to reading comics after over a decade of ignoring them and it was downloading them in .cbr that did it.

Now I’m trying to decide which title I’ll subscirbe to.

By: No Sheep » Digital Comics Unleashed (CBR/CBZ)

No Sheep » Digital Comics Unleashed (CBR/CBZ) — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:51:15 +0000

[...] Until I discovered the CBR and CBZ formats. These are simply zip or tar files that contain sequentially named JPG files, then are renamed either .cbr or .cbz with the last character indicating the originating format. Creation of this format is therefore trivial. Readers can also be created quite readily. I also love that there is no built-in DRM, but I’m sure the comics industry feels the opposite on that one. I gave my opinion on why they shouldn’t care back when I first started talking about the comic industry needing to go digital. [...]

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:24:20 +0000

you can subscribe to my rss feed, and specifically on a per category basis if for instance you are only interested in comics stuff.

By: river belle

river belle — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:23:50 +0000

Interesting post. Is it possible to get notified of future updates from your blog?

Cheers,

Wayne

By: Cartoon Central

Cartoon Central — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:25:50 +0000

Save The Comics Industry

Some ideas on taking the comics industry online….

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:37:13 +0000

two things
1. I dislike that there is no comment button at the bottom of your posts (If it is there, then ignore this, but I can’t see it, so you should take that into consideration). It is slightly bothersome to scroll back up to the top when I finished reading your post! ~which I have done~

2. Those are really excellent ideas. There are plenty of people who read online comics only, and who could actually be new subscribers to comic books if they were online. Getting some publicity thru established comics, like Penny-Arcade and PVP would be awesome.
Good ideas :)
you should get someone who actually makes decisions to read them!!