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PanelSyndicate.com is the DRM-free pay-what-you-feel-it's-worth digital comic book distributor that just publishes Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye.   Until now. Because they will now also publish Universe! by Spanish creator Albert Monteys. Bleeding Cool readers may recall he was the director and contributor to the Spanish satirical comic magazine El Jueves, until he and many others[...]

In the US, the Kindle price for Harley Quinn: Hot In The City is $16.99 Right now, in the UK, the Kindle price is 63p Equally, in the US, the Kindle price

We were promised some special content for the Harley Quinn Annual digital version, to make up for the lack of rub'n'smell technology Sadly, the version offered on Wednesday was lacking such bells and whistles But this weekend it arrived So I had to buy it again, obviously For the third time including print… So what delights[...]

Nothing says Hallowe'en more than reading digital comics in the dark, only lit by the glow of a tablet… and here's a way to get a bunch cheap. The Sequential App is giving away 666 copies of David Hine's graphic novel Strange Embrace. Well, 665 now… Monsterverse goes for half price comics… and ComiXology has quite a bevy of[...]

Dynamite Entertainment is rounding out their 10th anniversary by offering up a 50 digital comic bundle for only $19.93 and 10% of the money goes to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Dynamite is pushing their new digital comic site hard as well as the concept of bundling books to give readers a lower price The[...]

Not the print versions, but the digital ones A code for a free Halo comic on the Dark Horse App/digital distribution system. It's a clever notion It will cost Dark Horse little in production but drive a percentage of Loot Crate's six figure audience to sign up to Dark Horse's digital comics delivery system, separate from[...]

NoiseTrade Books is a platform designed to help authors & publishers build their audiences by distributing free eBooks, audiobooks and music

In their continuing effort to promote their DRM-Free Digital comics, Dynamite has sent over the first issue of the new Chastity series by Marc Andreyko and Dave Acosta The new series is part of Dynamite's relaunch of the Chaos Comics characters that includes Evil Ernie, Purgatory and Bad Kitty The initial relaunch of the characters[...]

Now they are making it available as part of their new DRM-Free digital comics The 50 issue series was originally published by First Comics from 1983 to 1989 and told a science fiction / political satire story set in 2030 Chicago. The first issue is now available on Dynamite's Digital site with more issues to come. For[...]

To go along with their recently launched digital website and their DRM-Free digital books, Dynamite is introducing discount bundles for their digital comics This will allow fans to try out new books at a much cheaper price and maybe find some gems they hadn't expected. To kick it off, they are offering a Five-Book Five Star[...]

Dynamite Entertainment is debuting its digital comic program featuring DRM-free comics Launching initially with comics available in PDF file format, the initiative makes a selection of its most popular and celebrated titles ready for download today directly by consumers The sale of DRM-free digital comics can be found at their company website's dedicated digital sales[...]

Project: The Economics of Digital Comics Creators Involved: Todd AllenCampaign End Date: 7/18/14. Publishing Date: September 2014. Ye Olde Elevatore Pitche: Exploring how digital comics make money and where they fit in the overall comics market.   Todd Allen writes, I don't really get to engage in idle speculation very often over at Publisher's Weekly, but this is Bleeding Cool, so[...]

And some publishers are, frankly, worried that Amazon is quite so willing to flex its muscles. The purchase of ComiXology by Amazon has led to some big market ructions, with many readers regretting the removal of the In App Purchase option that encouraged browising and impulse buys on iOS and Android devices. Well, when ComiXology signed publishers[...]

In a press release, Diamond Comic Distribution and digital publisher Trajectory Inc have announced agreement to publish comics distributed by Diamond as digital comics, internationally. Diamond recently announced an end to their own Diamond Digital line, and this looks like an intriguing third party replacement for that initiative. Trajectory will produce the digital comics in Beijing and[...]

Reading this scene in this week's Miracleman #5, sealed inside a bag as we warned you about, I wondered how it was going to have to be neutered for the digital mass market version. Marvel have sold two versions, of the digital comic, a Mass Marvel version on its own digital app and store, with "bottoms[...]

The record-setting cartoon strip, which consisted of panels of "Big Nate" cartoons drawn by schoolchildren, measured 3,920 feet, beating the previous mark of 3,320 feet, 2 inches, and was verified by Guinness World Records adjudicator Mike Janela. YOU GOT AN 'OLOGY' Robert Scott on the future challenges of digital comic books Nicely timed. "Smaller publishers who are struggling[...]

We ran this story three weeks ago, back in March. Now, three weeks later, ComiXology has confirmed it publicly. SEATTLE—April 10, 2014—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, the company that revolutionized the digital comics reading experience with their immersive Guided View technology and makes discovering, buying, and reading comic books[...]

  After a webpage launch last year that Jeff Smith compares to that of Obamacare, Boneville.com has relaunched, with the full first season of Tuki:

Bleeding Cool has been hearing rumours from senior comic book industry figures, who expect a sale to go through for digital comic distributor ComiXology in three to six weeks. ComiXology has an effective monopoly on the digital sale of many popular comics on a number of platforms, but a recent departure of many senior figures and[...]

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day from Amazon.com for US Kindle owners is eight DC New 52 first volumes titles for $2.99 each. Which works out at about 50

This morning, we ran the story that Bleeding Cool first reported on in November, on Marvel moving digital services together into one App, and after being reported by CNET this morning, Marvel has just announced the news on the panel at SXSW. And we also get a look (and a listen ) at how Marvel's audio[...]

This is a story that Bleeding Cool first reported on in November, the move to integrate Marvel's digital services into one central App… And its news that CNET has just announced, ahead of of today's announcements at SXSW. We knew about the improved speed and functionality of Marvel Unlimited, apparently down to being written in iOS code[...]

Lion Forge Comics is kicking off its new digital comic series based on the hit 80's television phenomenon Miami Vice. If you are too young to remember the series that featured Sonny Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs as a pair of live-by-their-own-rules detectives for the Metro-Dade Police Department… well then I'm envious of your youth… but[...]

Last year during SXSW, ComiXology came unstuck when a few hundred thousand people tried to download 700 free Marvel comics all at once and the system

On the eve of their prominent appearance at SXSW, popular digital comics distributor and publisher, ComiXology, has sent out a number of e-mails regarding loss of information after a hacking incident. The following letter went out to readers, Dear Comics Reader, In the course of a recent review and upgrade of our security infrastructure, we determined that an[...]

Last year, at SXSW, Marvel gave away 700 free digital comics And the entire ComiXology system crashed This time, they are risking their own servers instead. At this year's SXSW, Marvel will be giving access to their Marvel Unlimited App for one month for 99 cents, giving access to 15,000 digital Marvel comics, all you can[...]

As Shack News talks about the announcement from DC Comics that the Infinite Crisis MMORPG game will go to open beta from March 14th, they have an aside for all us comic folk as well. Because, with the undoubted success of the Injustice: Gods Among Us, it appears that Infinite Crisis will also be getting a[...]

It's offered in PDF, ePub or CBZ files that are not tied specifically to one reader or another. The books are going to be offered on their website: topshelfcomix.com and include the much talked about March: Book One by Congressman John Lewis, the series The Surrogates that was turned into a Bruce Willis movie, The Underwater Welder by Jeff[...]

One of the surprising stories of late is that digital sales in a number of markets are shrinking in growth or hitting a plateau Even shrinking How will that affect digital comics? Well, digital comic distributors are exceedingly stingy about information regarding sales numbers So the only way you can tell what's what is when a[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running the news that Marvel is planning to consolidate all its digital app into one easy to handle app. Could SXSW in Austin be the place to do it? Expect better planning than the 300 free comics that were suddenly very unavailable…  First, at 1:30pm (CST) on Saturday, March 8th, on the SXSW[...]