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>While that doesn't sound inviting for those of us who grew up on the printed art form
I don't know if we'll ever see the complete death of the printed book. When it comes to comics, a lot of places follow the Cyberpunk model and put stuff up on print on demand sites. It's a direct way to get revenue from your project with little cost. Webcomics do this a lot, after creating enough of a backfile to warrant assembly of a book.
>The growth and profitability isn't quite there
Well.... I think it works like it did for the music industry: the profitability for a big company like Marvel isn't there yet, but for the little guys it's a godsend. You can get your stuff out there for little cost, and you can even have it produced in hardcopy by print in demand places for those who want. (Again, with little cost.) 'Course you're not gonna be able to quit your day job unless you're one of the lucky few who hits; but that's true of the old school comic industry too.
>the Great White North had been handling comic book printing for much longer than that... a couple of decades at least?
Oh yeah. I went to highschool with the son of the owner of Preney Print and Litho; and that was back in the early 80's.
Don C.
I don't know if we'll ever see the complete death of the printed book. When it comes to comics, a lot of places follow the Cyberpunk model and put stuff up on print on demand sites. It's a direct way to get revenue from your project with little cost. Webcomics do this a lot, after creating enough of a backfile to warrant assembly of a book.
>The growth and profitability isn't quite there
Well.... I think it works like it did for the music industry: the profitability for a big company like Marvel isn't there yet, but for the little guys it's a godsend. You can get your stuff out there for little cost, and you can even have it produced in hardcopy by print in demand places for those who want. (Again, with little cost.) 'Course you're not gonna be able to quit your day job unless you're one of the lucky few who hits; but that's true of the old school comic industry too.
>the Great White North had been handling comic book printing for much longer than that... a couple of decades at least?
Oh yeah. I went to highschool with the son of the owner of Preney Print and Litho; and that was back in the early 80's.
Don C.
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