EJ

I have been in the printing industry for about 20 years now and It has indeed come a long way in my time. When I started most of the prep work was done conventionally "on the table" with actual film stripped onto flats to be burned onto lithographic plates. Nowadays, the bigger printing outfits process all of their work through a digital/electronic workflow where plates are imaged with a laser as opposed to vacuumed film in a light frame. Once all the legwork is done to make a comic, (or any printed piece for that matter) ready to print on a press, the process to optimize that file for "digital viewing" is pretty easy assuming you are using a simple PDF workflow or something comparable. A simple Acrobat Distiller type program would make saving out a print ready file to a smaller screen resolution appropriate version in no time at all. All I'm talking about here is getting the actual files ready to view in a smaller format. As to whatever interface the publisher chooses to use as the carrier for the finished product is beyond me and could very well take many man hours and copious amounts of money. However, I would assume that once a standard has been set and a proper workflow organized, this should become a relatively easy and cheap way to publish.