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Digital Delights – Apps, Apples And Appalling Value

Published Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:00:59 -0500

AppDelights: David Steinberger of ComiXology has a good day

It must be acknowledged that TWO comics apps are in the Top Ten Grossing iPad Apps now. @comiXology & @DCComics.

ComicDelight: Mike Netzer launches his new webcomic, Rebelution. (right)

SpyDelight: After years of being shunned by other sites, DigitalSpy has finally decided to start linking to the articles it refers to in its stories.

AppleDelight: IDW is the first big comics publisher to sign up fully to Apple's iBooks service, making twenty graphic novels available for iPad and iPhone.

This includes Code Word: Geronimo, shipping this week in print, telling the story of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden by military insiders.

The books also include the Locke & Key volumes, Parker, Star Trek and True Blood.

ThinkDelight: Dustin Harbin has shared fifteen thoughts on the future of the digital comic. Here's one.

"It seems to me like a foregone conclusion that people are going to one day wake up and think "hey–why are _comics_ the most expensive media purchase I make each month?" Digital device culture is increasingly ubiquitous, and the idea that the comics industry can funnel its readership in a direction that's somehow in the best interests of publishers, brick-and-mortar retailers, and digital distribution companies is… hard to swallow. This is driven home to me whenever the "day-and-date" question pops up. Essentially, "should digital comics be available the same day as their (presumably better? more important?) print version?" Because that question has nothing to do with users, and everything to do with print publishers and comic book shops."

LibyaDelight: Bluewater has published a digital comic, Where's Muammar? by Jarred Weisfeld with art by Dario Reyes for the Nook and the Kindle in which the reader is encouraged to find the elusive Libyan leader.

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