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Exorcising Prices – Digital Comics Deals For Hallowe'en 2014
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[...]
Dark Horse Puts Free Digital Halo Comics In September's Loot Crate
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[...]
Free On Bleeding Cool – Chastity #1 By Marc Andreyko And Dave Acosta
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[...]
Free On Bleeding Cool – American Flagg! #1
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[...]
Dynamite Introduces Digital Discount Bundles
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 Launches Its DRM-Free Digital Comic Program
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[...]
The Coming Digital Inflection Point
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[...]
It's 2014. Who Do You Want To Distribute Your Digital Comics?
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[...]
Diamond Comics To Distribute Digital Comics With Trajectory, Inc
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[...]
Marvel Stop Publishing Mass Market Miracleman Digital Editions
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[...]
Saturday Runaround – The Longest Comic And The Naughtiest Dog
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[...]
TOLDJA: Amazon Buys ComiXology
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[...]
Is ComiXology For Sale? Could Amazon Be The Buyer?
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[...]
The Look And Sound Of Marvel's New Audio Adaptive Digital Comics
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[...]
Marvel To Integrate Digital Services Into Marvel Unlimited App
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[...]
You Still Have Those Pastel Suits? Miami Vice Goes Digital
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[...]
ComiXology Hacked, Sends Out E-Mail Warnings Requiring Password Changes
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[...]
A Month Of Marvel Unlimited For 99 Cents At SXSW – Where Is This Leading?
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[...]
Top Shelf To Offer DRM-Free Graphic Novels
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[...]
Diamond Comics Closes Their Digital Distribution Line
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[...]
Injustice Gods Among Us – Not Quite So Digital First?
A spinoff of a computer game it ignited on release, both digitally and in print, and was the real surprise success of the last couple of years And regularly tops the digital sales every couple of weeks. When the Injustice Gods Among Us title first returned from hiatus in January, while first digital issue arrived one[...]