@TheNextChampion... I agree that longbox will be more sucessful if they had DC and Marvel. But why not look at it another way, if DC and Marvel don't do something like longbox, they are doomed. LongBox can be very sucessful without Marvel or DC. They may not change your reading habits, but it will change mine, evern if it doesn't have DC or Marvel. However consider if LongBox got a publisher like Viz, or TokyoPop? Those markets are much larger than DC or Marvel.
This would actually get me to buy comics again. Currently I only subscribe to the marvel online digital comics, which while the image quality is pretty good, their "player" sucks. Anything that isn't marvel online I steal. Yeah I said it I STEAL. Really it's only an issue here or there, or I borrow TPB from a comic friend.
I can't wait!! Is there information somewhere a beta program?
Regarding the 99 cent price.... Let's do a little math. So most comics are 2.99-3.99. Your local comic shop is probably buying those at around 40-60% of cover price, so let's assume 50%. That's 1.50-2.00. We don't know, but we can guess that Diamond is taking 30-50% of that money. So the publisher is only going to get .75 $ on the low end to 1.40 on the high end, per issue sold. If you don't have the printing, paper, production and shipping costs, publishers might actually make more money from a digital comic than they would on a print issue. Now, that was all pure educated guess work so I might be complete wrong, but I don't think I am THAT far off.
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@TheNextChampion... I agree that longbox will be more sucessful if they had DC and Marvel. But why not look at it another way, if DC and Marvel don't do something like longbox, they are doomed. LongBox can be very sucessful without Marvel or DC. They may not change your reading habits, but it will change mine, evern if it doesn't have DC or Marvel. However consider if LongBox got a publisher like Viz, or TokyoPop? Those markets are much larger than DC or Marvel.
This would actually get me to buy comics again. Currently I only subscribe to the marvel online digital comics, which while the image quality is pretty good, their "player" sucks. Anything that isn't marvel online I steal. Yeah I said it I STEAL. Really it's only an issue here or there, or I borrow TPB from a comic friend.
I can't wait!! Is there information somewhere a beta program?
Regarding the 99 cent price.... Let's do a little math. So most comics are 2.99-3.99. Your local comic shop is probably buying those at around 40-60% of cover price, so let's assume 50%. That's 1.50-2.00. We don't know, but we can guess that Diamond is taking 30-50% of that money. So the publisher is only going to get .75 $ on the low end to 1.40 on the high end, per issue sold. If you don't have the printing, paper, production and shipping costs, publishers might actually make more money from a digital comic than they would on a print issue. Now, that was all pure educated guess work so I might be complete wrong, but I don't think I am THAT far off.