Would you go digital for 99 cents a comic?

[Riffster]

i'd use it for books i'm on the fence with, but not my favorite books.

[kingdom warrior]

Hell to the No......I like paper comics Thank you please.....


I like the smell of Old comics........

[boynightwing]

I'd consider digital. I have so many comic books laying around the house and I want to get rid of like half of them as it is. Digital would save a lot of room. I'd store them on portable hard drives. I'd love to get one of those Sony book readers. If I could read comics on it, that would seal the deal. I just haven't really researched it yet.

I do have a program on my computer called Comic Rack. Its pretty amazing for reading digital comics. I've ummm downloaded a few here and there. I don't go download crazy or anything. It is how I discovered how awesome Y the Last Man is. Now I'm buying the collected sets to keep.

[samurainoir]

Although, interesting thought: If digital spreads, and physical runs from companies decrease... won't that drive the prices up on the secondary market?

Less physical product=lower supply.

I think you are absolutely right, and digital is what will eventually be the dividing point between Readers and Collectors.

We're already seeing that with the move to trades vs traditional floppies.

Print to order will very likely be the future, and scarcity may or may not tank the market depending on how the retailers and collectors behave (although how often do they really learn the lessons of the past when it comes to Quick Buck vs long term sustainability?).

I remember a few years ago Marvel was manipulating the market somewhat with their no overprint policies... which created quite a number of "instant collectibles" in the secondary market. Ultimate Spiderman was going for insane prices on ebay at the time of the first movie, but then again if they were only selling in the 30-60,000 range, then supply would have outstripped demand at that time given the subsequent success of the Ultimates line .

[samurainoir]

You're more likely to loose (or crash) the device that you store your entire collection of comics on then loose the boxes containing the same amount of books.

Once you loose those digital books, TRY to get them all back without paying again.

No Thanx...Give me somethin' to hold on to.

Good point. That would be incredibly frustrating.

How do most people these days handle their music back-up? I know that I keep mine on a separate hard-drive in addition to my ipod. I'd probably do the same with whichever device I was using as a reader, but there are never any guarantees.

[mazinz]

Good point. That would be incredibly frustrating.

How do most people these days handle their music back-up? I know that I keep mine on a separate hard-drive in addition to my ipod. I'd probably do the same with whichever device I was using as a reader, but there are never any guarantees.

archive them onto dvds (paying attention to brand and media code), trust them more than I will ever trust any hard drive device


same goes for digital comics and zines

[WannabeMego]

Here is Marvel's Subscription Program if anyone is curious:

Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited

$60/Year or $10/Month for Unlimited Access to over 5,000 titles (Old & New)

...but it appears to be Web-Based reading ONLY, or at least I can't find any references to downloading to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, or Droid.

[Hulk]

The "cloud" (storage/subscriptions/data online) is already happening, and multidevice access is a reality. You can already read your Amazon digital books on your Kindle, PC, iPod/iPad, or your smartphone, so I don't think losing them will be a problem. Even if you can't download them, you can access them through built in browsers, although I'd prefer to be able to download something and go offline to read it.

[samurainoir]

The "cloud" (storage/subscriptions/data online) is already happening, and multidevice access is a reality. You can already read your Amazon digital books on your Kindle, PC, iPod/iPad, or your smartphone, so I don't think losing them will be a problem. Even if you can't download them, you can access them through built in browsers, although I'd prefer to be able to download something and go offline to read it.

I'm really fascinated by where they are going with the macbook Air. It shows a real confidence in the "cloud" to strip out all that hard drive space in favour of a small amount of flash storage.

I can't even begin to describe the extent that Google documents and the ability to edit and share stuff online has changed my work flow process. Although we really do have to be careful about "Version-itis" when it passes through multiple hands.