That’s why the market is increasingly an either/or structure. They don’t really want to sample new titles, even though lesser-known and/or struggling publishers are the only ones with the incentive to push the boundaries into new formats and distribution methods… they want the same books they’re buying too many of for cheaper. So when people say “I want cheap legal online comics”, they mean “get to it, Marvel and DC”.

When a lot of people talk about “comics”, they mean “familiar superhero comics”. They use existing software standards either PDF (which everyone can open, just about) or CBZ (which anyone interested in digital comic downloading already knows).īut the big key here is that they’re not DC or Marvel. Basically, what it comes down to is if you put some kind of heavy-handed DRM on your downloads you wind up making the download more expensive, making it less usable by the end user, and ultimately end up sending that customer back to the torrent sites to get this stuff for free.”). They’re not copy-protected (because Vado says, “DRM systems are a huge obstacle in the download environment….

They say “I want cheaper legal online comics.” Ok, comics at EyeMelt are 69 or 89 cents (depending on whether they’re older reprints of print editions or new original content, respectively).

Whether or not this particular venture succeeds, this is what people have been asking for. Chris Arrant interviews Dan Vado at Newsarama about EyeMelt, his digital comic store (link no longer available).

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