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Digital Delights – Bone Goes Digital And UK Online Prices Rise

Digital Delights – Bone Goes Digital And UK Online Prices Rise

BoneDelight: BONE is now available in a new digital format through comiXology, on Apple, Android and Web. With Jeff Smith creating a comic app of the series for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Bone 1 and RASL 1 will be free, with all other issues selling for 99 cents each.

He'll be hosting a live Q&A on Reddit later today to answer any questions and thoughts that you have.

RetailerDelight: I've been mentioning that the UK iTunes price of DC Comics dramatically undercuts the price that UK retailers sell print copies. And as DC goes to day-and-date and was meant to be price matching with print retail for the first month of sale, that UK retailers may suffer. A $2.99 comic current sells on iTunes for $1.79. That's even less than the pound/dollar exchange rate of £1.86, even including the 20% VAT charge. But print comics have to be shipped across the ocean and Diamond UK, technically a customer of Diamond US, then has to redistribute them across the UK, with the added costs that brings. Then there is no recommended retail price, so the price varies across the country from £2.10 in London and Bristol to £2.50 in Hull.

Well, suddenly there's a big change. iTunes $2.99 comics are now being sold for £1.99, a 20 pence jump. Which should make a UK retailers a little happier happy – and a lot of UK customers sad…

MassDelight: For the next 24 hours, Dark Horse Comics is offering both of its Mass Effect comic series on its Digital app, free of charge.

ApeDelight: A Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes prequel comic is available to read, free, from Boom, right here.

Digital Delights – Bone Goes Digital And UK Online Prices Rise

HireWatch: Graphic.Ly has promoted David Carp as their "Creator Advocate", to work with creators to help them understand how to market their work and drive awareness. Find him at the Archaia booth at San Diego or on davidc@graphicly.com


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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