Over in the forums there’s a thread on whether comic books will go digital.
My thought: absolutely they will.
The Amazon Kindle model is quite exciting.
The HeavyInk plan for this is two fold:
(a) try to make a lot of money between now and then
(b) generate lots of data, community, and features that will be useful even in the digital comics age (if you’ve been a loyal Inker for 10 years by the time you start downloading comics into your Kindle 7.0, you’re going to have given HI lots of info on your preferences meaning that we can give you great recommendations, you’re going to have lots of friends here, you’re going to still enjoy buying framed limited edition art, toys, etc.).
So: comics will go digital – long live comics! ( ...and long live the HeavyInk community!)
Comments
There are two reasons that comics will not become (exclusively) digital. They are:
1. Collectors, like myself, will not buy them. We want touch and feel as well as the art and the story. Am I the only one that misses the smell of comics before they changed the printing method? Reading one of my older comics transports me to when I was a kid hunkered down in the back seat reading (and rereading) my favorite comics-
yes I destroyed many comics through reading, reading and reading again-if I would have cared for them like I do now I could retire… and,2. Second (and probably the main reason) publishers will not give up the income they get selling to collectors. Why do you think they are making these variants if not to sell more of the same. I suspect many comics sold today don’t even get read—or two copies are purchased. One for reading and one for keeping.
No, comics will not go digital—unless they are digital on medium such as flexible OLED paper with a single sheet that can be paged thru from virtual cober to cover (with the ads of course.)
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