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What I think we actually have is a sub-licence to view the content, with Comixology having the main licencee relationship with DC? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

So DC (knowing that the distributers entire business model is based on being able to grant "sub-licences") is unlikely, in my view, to have a clause allowing them to simply terminate their relationship with Comixology or Graphic.ly and strip that business out from under them. The distributers would certainly be very wary of something like that. Its for the same reason that i don't see Comixology going out of business. As long as DC publishes material, the distributers have a life line. In this particular case, I feel that the distinction between ownership and a licence is a non issue.

If you buy a device that doesn't support these apps, well that, to be blunt, is all on you.

Assuming sales of digital issues begin to outsell paper issues, making the latter untenable in DC's eyes, it seems logical that trades and hardcovers etc become the only printed material. So @Wally, to be fair I think we are making assumptions when we say "if you want printed material, it will still be there." We're assuming that people want to buy that particular format.