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  Bleeding Cool's owner Avatar Press have launched their direct digital comics offerings – DRM-free comics from their range of extreme offerings from the biggest writing names in comics. And in Cinema Purgatorio's case, ahead of next Wednesday's mass-market comic store date. The work of Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Max Brooks, Jonathan Huckman, Si Spurrier, Antony[...]

eigoMANGA is teaming with hoopla digital to make eigoMANGA's comic titles available to public libraries through hoopla digital's platform. hoopla digital is a service that partners with public libraries across North America to provide online and mobile access to thousands of Movies, TV Shows, Music, eBooks, Audiobooks and Comics Library goers can borrow, instantly stream and download content with[...]

Today also sees the launch of over 1,900 chapters, creating a large library for fans that want to dive in for the first time or get caught up before the upcoming volumes digitally debut in English. It is common for fans to create English translations of Japanese comics and distribute them illegally before the officially translated volumes[...]

Infinite Comics is the layered digital comic brand from Marvel Comics, modelled after Alex De Campi' comic book design for Valentine, and what we, at Bleeding Cool, call decampi comics as a result. Available through ComiXology and the like, Marvel have now moved 90 issues of them over to the all-you-can-eat digital buffet of Marvel Unlimited. Electricomics'[...]

A new kind of digital comic book envisioned for his planned movie, The Show, that became real And, with arts funding, saw the publication of a number of short comics in that format created by well known writers and artists, and a generator so that anyone could have a go And they did. But it was[...]

It is scarily easy and has the kind of user interface you wish some of the legit digital comic services had. https://twitter.com/ofmoonsandstars/status/674680556467171328 The only problem – apart from ethical ones – is that each page is watermarked Well, you wouldn't want anyone to steal it would you? https://twitter.com/primacies/status/673314635727183872 They say, None of the files shown here are hosted or transmitted[...]

Ultimates #1 for $2 and Deadpool #2 for  $1 These are just a few recent sales on eBay for the digital codes that Marvel give free with their $3.99 and over titles Transforming every $3.99 title into a $2.99 title or $1.99 title – even a $1.50 title in some cases. Bleeding Cool used to have a trading thread under[...]

At the Thought Bubble panel for Electricomics last year, they had an idea, but that was all. Last weekend at Thought Bubble, they had an app featuring some of the best creators in comics, and a bunch of experimental newcomers. It's been quite a year. The panel consisted of Electricomics' editor Leah Moore, creator John Reppion and Peter Hogan, photographer and fundraiser Mitch[...]

Archie Comics is to totally relaunch its digital app with the motion comics publisher Madefire, called the Archie Comics Reader. The new app, which goes live on iOS devices today will showcase Archie's comics and graphic novels with exclusive digital content And are merging the pay-per-comic and all-you-can-eat services Archie reader can use the new Archie[...]

Anyway. There's lots of things happening in comic stores, where they have been giving away free comics all day, some in packs to be given away by people at their own doors. Look at all these amazing FREE Halloween ComicFest comics we have waiting for you! pic.twitter.com/iFA9UM0oPt — thirdeyecomics (@thirdeyecomics) October 31, 2015 https://twitter.com/charmingred/status/660480844931334144 Look who else showed up for Halloween[...]

At the behest of their new owners Amazon, the leading digital comics distributor and publisher ComiXology will be offering all-you-can-eat subscription services to readers, allowing them to pay a fixed fee, then have unlimited access to select comic books And publishers will have to play along My expectation is that this would be compulsory for ComiXology[...]

Lots of people use ComiXology to read digital comic books. But as we have noted, discussion with publishers reveal that digital reading numbers appear to have plateaued for their titles. Instead we have seen ComiXology expand the range of comics they distribute, exclusively publish some with Submit, move from country after country to expand the reader base and[...]

Today, motion comic book publisher and distributor, Madefire, has launched a new app, Motion Book Publisher to openly enable comic book publishers to build their own storefront, apps and publish books across multiple platforms and products. Currently there are major incompatibility issues regarding different devices, Motion Book Publisher seeks remove these by creating a new adaptable standard, that will[...]

We knew it was coming but now it's official… Dark Horse's comics, after ploughing their years of digital independence,have come to ComiXology. Today comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, proudly announced a digital distribution agreement with Dark Horse Comics, the largest independent comic book publisher, to bring their full digital catalog of collections, graphic novels, and[...]

Last year we started hearing about Comic Blitz, a digital comic app that would work a bit like Netflix allowing you as many comics as you like for a monthly subscription fee The company was planning on rolling out a beta for the app this weekend at Heroescon in Charlotte, North Carolina Having the app[...]

It's been a principle that, initially at least, DC Comics doesn't sell a digital copy of a comic book for less than the print copy After a month or so, things may change, but initially at least the publisher keeps price parity. That seems to have changed with the Wonder Woman '77 Special As Wonderworld Comics[...]

The digital comic book distributor and publisher bought by Amazon (we told you about that first too) looks to be moving into a new level of size, scope and ambition For which it needs boots on the ground. And at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this weekend, they are hiring At the panels, at the parties,[...]

Prose equivalent of Netflix, Scribd, is moving into comic books in a big way. As of right now, they have expanded their all-you-can-eat digital reading service to cover 10,000 comics and graphic novels from Marvel, Archie, Boom, Dynamite, IDW/Top Shelf, Top Cow, Valiant, Zenescope and more, including works such as Locke & Key, From Hell, March, League Of[...]

 ComiXology's Submit allows creators and publishers to self-publish their comics digitally with relative ease, with new titles every week. They can get a bit hidden away though, something I want to redress in 2015 a bit But for now, here's the top-selling 25 titles for 2014… with Gail Simone, Jim Califiore, Gary Erskine, Joe Benitez,[...]

ComiXology sent a survey out to lapsed customers asking why they lapsed so… If you haven't bought any comics with us in a while, do any of these reasons below explain why?  I no longer like comics There haven't been any good comics worth buying I now prefer to buy print comics I no longer purchase now that in-app purchasing[...]

Up until a few days ago, you could buy all of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics digitally for a fraction of the cost. This is no longer the case Now all the Dark Horse Star Wars comics have moved from Dark Horse's digital app to Marvel's Comixolgy apps En masse. Though they may cost a little more[...]

Mark Waid writes, in an introduction to Todd Allen's Economics of Digital Comics, The more I learn, the less I know. This year, I celebrate my 30th anniversary as a comics industry professional Over the course of my career, I've worked for every major publisher and most minor ones I've been a writer, a publisher, an editor, a[...]

Who needs a three-months-ahead-Previews? Oni Press are debuting a new graphic novel Jamie S. Rich and Megan Levens, entitled Ares & Aphrodite, by

Bleeding Cool reader Jeff was rather perplexed when he went to purchase the most recent issue of DC Digital weekly comic book, Sensation Comics, featuring a more traditional Wonder Woman. Anyway, he tells us, I got a notice back on December 25th, that issue #21 would be released on January 1, 2015 Usually, this is followed up[...]

Are you the kind of person who has never bought a digital comic before? Been a hardcore printhead? Or maybe a nefarious pirate? Well, I don't know if this will change your mind But right now ComiXology are doing a special sale, half off your first order. And because they are maybe trying to get pirates to[...]

That's the deal on the Dark Horse Digital App – every Star Wars comic they've ever put out, that's well over a thousand comics, for $300 That's 80% off the standard price For the last five days that Dark Horse still have the rights to sell them. Of you can just buy each individual one for half[...]

This weekend, Bleeding Cool asked why ComiXology were adding sales tax charges ahead of new European legislation coming into place in January - and asked

We mentioned the launch of iVerse Media's new update for their ComicsPLUS app earlier today, with a host of new features designed it seems, to take on ComiXology at it's core. Incorporating pirated files alongside paid for files, creating your own not-Guided View experiences, and more, another feature is that of being able to digitally "rent" graphic[...]

To change the way digital comic collections could be stored, organised, read and bought. And how it was a definite challenge aimed at ComiXology. Well, it's now been announced, as an update to the ComicsPLUS App Here it is on Apple iOS and Android I'm off to have a go… With uView, users can now create cinematic reading[...]

Delete! Delete! But before you do that, here are a few comic book deals for Cyber Monday… Marvel is letting you sign up to their all-you-can-eat digital comics buffet service for 75 cents for the first month, with 15,000 comics uploaded to read. And 30 percent off a Digital Comics Unlimited subscription. Amazon has a half price Joker[...]