Comments on: More on the war against BitTorrenting of comic books

By: Oroboros

Oroboros — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:47:50 +0000

I’m still very much alive and scanning. In fact, as far as scanning goes, nothing has changed around me. Only the means of distribution have changed. Look harder.

By: RonSchooly

RonSchooly — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:40:21 +0000

If the comic publishers ever got their shit together, they’d realize that they could sell their comics in a digital format on flash drives. That way, customers get a physical thing in addition to the 1s and 0s of the digital comic. Some bands do this already.

Imagine having the whole series of a particular comic on a flash drive- or buying old issues of a series in that format. There is a lot of potential there.

By: Rick Rottman

Rick Rottman — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:04:54 +0000

Sloofus, I picked the 99 cents price point because that is what people are willing to pay for music. Nobody knows what people are willing to pay for digital comics because it’s never been tried.

And I think digital comics are more mobile then you might think. I used to put them on a CD along with a copy of CDisplay. I would take this disc to work and using my PC at work, read on my lunch.

By: RonSchooly

RonSchooly — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:27:40 +0000

I really don’t think any comic is actually worth 3 bucks. Unless it was inlaid with gold leaf or something.

By: sloofus

sloofus — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:14:27 +0000

Woah… 99 cents an issue? Let’s nip this in the bud. It’s bad enough every MP3 is 99 cents (except in Mother Russia); how about if digital comics were much, much cheaper? I would say they’re worth about ten cents. They take about 20 seconds to read, and then are pretty much useless. 99 cents is a third of a ‘real’ comic’s price, and a digital copy sure isn’t worth that much. In theory, a paper comic can be taken anywhere and (again, in theory) might appreciate in value some day. It’s “worth” three bucks. A digital comic? That’s worth about a dime.