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Oct 11, 2010 at 11:00 am
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Love, Erik
Oh, and Fake Erik, it's time to come to grips with the fact that technology exists. I'm willing to be that digital comics will lead to far more people getting into comics and then visiting shops.
Right now, the traditional comics industry is doing jack to bring in new readers. But if a non-comics reader can easily download titles cheap and easy, they'll get hooked and grow beyond their digital app. Guarantee it.
But the industry (including shops) need to figure out how capitalize on the technology and move forward--or the medium will move forward without you.
The shops have to change the way they present the new issues if they are every going to build up a readership beyond the most die-hard comic buyers, otherwise it will be digital issues for all but the biggest titles, with only bound collections & graphic novels seeing actual print for the smaller ones.
@Fake Scott. The "industry" has already figured out a way to capitalize on this technology. That's why they're doing it even if it hurts local comic retailers (and thus local economies) to maximize their corporate profit margin.
You're not cheering for technology so much as you're a cheerleader for a corporation. Nice going, John McCain. (But don't be so weak as to blame a comic shop for your own actions. You make your choices.)
And assuming comics' markup is around 40%, Dark Horse is already making more money by emailing you a PDF of a PDF. And now you have nothing of value should you want to resell it. Sucker.
@MonkeyBeat: See kiala.
Also, it's hard to buy your story about not being able to find monthly titles at your local shop...and thus you're cruelly forced to find them on the infinitesimally larger internet.
Maybe check out a few shops. Find one you like. Chat with 'em. Tell them what you're looking for or what you might be into. Sure, you may actually have to interact with nerds, but I'm sure they'd be glad to help.
@kiala: But, but...you're asking someone to a make a bare minimum of effort.
And the only worse thing than someone who wants to make no effort is someone who steals...which brings us to @Graham. Though I bet he's being pithy. Cheeky monkey. And now we're Back to the Future 2.
We've already been through this with music. We're currently seeing the demise of bookstores. People will make their choices and have to live with them.
Given what we know, hopefully people will choose to be cooler when it comes to comics.