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May 6, 2012 9:11 am And while I do not disagree with Josh's statement about overhead and why comics are not cheaper... lets look at the math. 30% to google or apple. and for arguments sake, lets say the same to the app you buy it from (even though I suspect that may be high). If someone runs a store they could give an idea what kind of a % cut the store gets on each paper sale to tighten that number up a little bit. So from a starting point 60% of the sale goes to other people. A 3.99 comic means that $1.60 is left to go to the people making the comic (company/creators/etc). $2.40 to overhead. Lets say they drop the price to 2.99 on the same comic. Does 1.40 still go to overhead leaving only .59 to the people making the comic. no. If they drop it to 2.99 then it drops to 1.20 to the people making the comic. And then the real equation, which is the key to the question... does making (hypothetically in this case) 40 cents less a comic bring in X number of more sales to offset that. And while we probably don't even know what in what ballpark that number is... the sure way to meet is is as Josh said.. volume.

May 6, 2012 12:02 am If .99 cents are your price point, there are massive amounts of 99 cent comics out there. Sure you have to catch the sale, but they are there. I have about 3,000 comics in comixology, most were bought on the sales. Sure its not day and date, but there have been lots of good stuff. I wanted them to start doing day and date, so I bought every day and date comic they released for a while. Showing, with my purchases, that was what I wanted. We got it, and frankly I couldn't afford, or have the time to read every new issue, so I backed off and now just buy the ones I am most interested in. I really like the 99 cent price point, so again I show them with my purchases and literally have bought every issue of every sale they have had for most of the past couple of months. I also loved the marvel infinite format as well as the DC beyond format. So I have bought every one they have released. If you look where we were just a year ago on digitial comics, I would not have dreamed we would have came this far this fast. This time next year things could totally change.

May 5, 2012 11:50 pm Really? I do not think I have ever paid sales tax on any of my downloads.

December 24, 2011 4:11 pm I have a hard time believing that Hope would not have known who sebastian shaw is on sight.

December 24, 2011 4:08 pm Secret floors between floors, housing secret organizations. What a novel idea. I've never seen THAT before.

December 23, 2011 8:22 pm gonna be a tough week for me picking potw. the reverse psycology on Q was so much fun. The perfect mix of humor and seriousness. And then adding krak to the teem.. genius.

December 22, 2011 8:45 pm Best panel: DO you know what this means? .... It means you're talking to girls now. It means I have to start talking to girls. Can I make it pick of the week based solely on that statement?

December 11, 2011 9:20 am With two books to go to read this weekeend, this will probably be my pick of the week.

December 11, 2011 9:18 am I don't really think this and Animal Man is for me, but I keep reading it because they are both tied together, and I am a sucker for a big pay off like that. But between reading the two books I am little bit tired of reading how The Greena nd red oppose the rot.. I get it already.

December 10, 2011 8:42 am Still enjoying this book a lot, although, and I am a liefield fan, even though Wantabe looks like the guy from the infinite.