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Wattpad, World’s Biggest Prose Site, Bought by Webtoon Parent Naver
Wattpad, the free publishing app that boasts 90 million readers worldwide, has been bought up by Naver, the South Korean Internet Conglomerate who also owns Webtoon, the digital comics app arguably the world's most successful comics publisher Webtoon has over 72 million monthly users worldwide. Wattpad logo On Tuesday, Deadline reported that Wattpad's Board of Directors of[...]
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ComiXology and DC Comics has informed their digital comics customers that the DC Digital Comics Shop at ReadDC.com, operated by comiXology, will be closing on January 14th, 2021 The service can still be accessed via the DC Digital Comics app on iOS or Google Play, but no longer through DC's website Readers will be able[...]
Studio Tapas: Tapas Media launches Original Content Division
Tapas Media, the leading US-based digital comics publisher with more than six billion views, has launched Studio Tapas, a new division dedicated to producing and publishing original webcomics and novels Studio Tapas has access to a catalog of more than 70 Originals owned by Tapas Media Studio Tapas has an additional 30 originals in production for[...]
Tapas Announces Annual Inksgiving Event for November
Digital comics publishing platform Tapas, the home of diverse online comics as Sarah's Scribbles, Fangs, Ghostblade, and Silent Horror, announced Inksgiving, a special event for Thanksgiving. Tapas Inksgiving, key art from Tapas In November, Tapas will celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with their 3rd annual Tapas Presents Inksgiving event beginning Friday, November 20th at 3 pm[...]
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It happened in the week after Amazon-owned ComiXology decided to stop subsidising the cost of UK and European digital comics by a) making the exchange rate closer to what it actually was, b) not absorbing the cost of sales taxes and c) adding something on top to make up for all the money they had[...]
The cover to Wolf's Head #1 by Von Allan.
Wolf's Head, the ongoing comic book series by Ottawa comic book creator Von Allan, has finally come to digital comics platform ComiXology Allan revealed the news in a press release, marking an expansion for the book to a worldwide audience The first issue is available now, with the next nine to become available when processed. 'Wolf's[...]
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All major comic book publishers have pulled digital comics versions of new titles out this week, as they are still unable to publish them in print There are exceptions for Archie's general market titles, collections already sold into the book market, and original graphic novels such as DC's Alt-Hero out today Smaller publishers are less[...]
The cover to X-Men #1 from Marvel Comics, hitting Marvel Unlimited in April.
If you haven't subscribed to Marvel's binge-reading digital comics service, it's hard to say no to all of that for just $9.99 a month Party like it's 2019 with Marvel Unlimited's April offerings Check out the press release and the lineup of the newest comics hitting the service below. The cover to X-Men #1 from Marvel[...]
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Dark Horse Comics may not be releasing any digital comics this week, but the publisher doesn't want to leave you with nothing Dark Horse to read To solve this problem, Dark Horse is following in the footsteps of Dynamite Entertainment and making a bunch of #1 issues free tor read digitally on their web store,[...]
Batman #92 DC Comics Cover
In previous reports, Bleeding Cool told you that the situation with big comic book publishers and their plans for print and digital comics were undetermined It appears that is now evolving Over this weekend, we noted that DC Comics had a full line-up of digital comic books for this Wednesday, including the likes of Batman[...]
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Back in 2011, as digital comics were just on the verge of becoming popular, Dark Horse attempted to release their comics digitally at the same time they were released in print, and to sell them for cheaper as well The move, which would have been good for readers and probably good for the industry as[...]
As We Head Into the Next Decade, Is It Time to Rethink Digital Comics?
The perfect time to talk about comics' greatest failure: digital comics. When digital comics were first introduced to the superhero comics industry over a decade ago, they were meant to be the future of comics But has it worked out that way? As of 2019, seemingly not Physical comic book sales still vastly outstrip digital sales,[...]
WEBTOON Partners with Crunchyroll to Develop Animation Series
WEBTOON, the world's leading digital comics publisher, announced a partnership with Crunchyroll, the world's most popular anime streaming service The strategic partnership will see the development and co-production of new animated content Crunchyroll and WEBTOON will also collaborate on the distribution, licensing, and retail of each new series. Korea-owned WEBTOON is currently the most read comics[...]