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It's currently on sale at Amazon.com for $90, as opposed to the $150 retail price That's a whopping 40% discount. Now normally retailers will get a larger discount than that from Diamond Comic Distributors to sell on to their customers and make a reasonable profit on each book to stay in business- the kind of profit[...]

Get in, get out, Manga Studio Debut 4 is currently on Amazon.com for $13, that's $37 off the $50 retail price Wonderful for any budding comic creator Fill your boots… Here's the bumf; Manga Studio Debut 4.0 is your all-in-one solution for stunning, ready-to-publish manga and comics Invigorate your artwork using color, express motion using[...]

That's the tweet sent out at the end of September, assuring people as the news streamed out that DC Comics were getting into bed with Amazon Kindle Fire, that they would be able to access these one hundred digital graphic novels on their Apple iPads, say. However, when the books went live for downloading yesterday, people[...]

Could this be the best Thanksgiving deal for aspiring or working comic book professionals? Manga Studio Ex 4 down from $300 to $60 on Amazon right now Here's what you get; UPDATE: Sorry folks, back up to $160 now… looks like it was too popular! Course, that means it's now cheaper in the UK… Manga Studio EX[...]

Barnes & Noble took all 100 of the DC print graphic novels that were digitally exclusive to the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire off their stores' shelves as an act of protest in favour making books available in all formats, and not exclusive to one device. And now today, the new Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet and[...]

Did you miss out on yesterday's Amazon Gold Box deal for the Superman Movie Blu Ray deal? Down from $130 to $56? Good. Because now you have another change, again for one day only, with Warner Bros' own website Where the Blu Ray collection of al the Suoperman movies and so much more is now only $52. Sorry[...]

Most definitely not a glitch… but the Superman Movie Blu Ray Box Set, comprised of all the movies and all the gubbins so far, is Amazon's Gold Box deal right now List price of $130, Amazon usually sell it for $90, right now it's at $56 That's 57% off the list price Or, as I[...]

Okay, so it's not a glitch. Then again, the Swipe File isn't all about swipes. A rose by any other name would still have been played by Billie Piper. But

Amazon.com recently withdrew Frank Miller's Holy Terror from sale. Was it over criticism of Miller's politics in the book? Was it over fear of reprisal from incendiary religious extremists? Was it Warner Bros believing that the similarity with Batman and Catwoman is too obvious? Not a bit of it Talking to publishers at MTV Geek party two[...]

Just last week, Bleeding Cool told you that Barnes & Noble was pulling 100 popular DC graphic novels off of shelves in response to DC's plans to release them in digital form exclusively on Amazon's Kindle Fire platform Today, Publisher's Weekly is reporting that Books-A-Million — which has become the nation's second largest brick and mortar[...]

Amanda Hocking is one of the true success stories of e-books, selling over a million of them, without having previous publishing experience or media

When we first reported this morning that Barnes & Noble were removing from their bookshelves the 100 graphic novels digitally exclusive to the Amazon Fire Kindle, there was some doubt Even as Neil Gaiman tweeted the news, people got in touch to say their Barnes & Noble had received no such instruction As one Upper[...]

For new visitors to the site, do check out the front page for more stories… Last week, Bleeding Cool reported on DC Comics' plans to release 100 graphic novels exclusively on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Well now the other shoe has dropped I understand that Barnes & Noble executives are furious over this, specifically citing DC's reluctance[...]

As you heard about on Bleeding Cool yesterday, Dynamite is publishing Chuck Dixon's Seal Team Six novel on the Kindle for a cool 99 cents. And if that's

Ten years ago today, Al Qaeda operatives, organised by Osama Bin Laden, destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon and took down four