abart01

August 30, 2010 2:33 pm

JacqueNargg said: "Not that all comic readers that start on torrents will eventually transfer to purchasing them, but I think there is definitely some truth to those words."

Absolutely. With individual issues being, for the most part, four bucks apiece, the price of entry for comic books is pretty high if you're going to do much reading at all. For example, if you want to follow Marvel's Shadowlands event, 31 books in that event x $4 is $124 over, for the most part, four months, just to follow a single event in a single universe from a single publisher. I can definitely see the appeal of continuing to stick with a core title, using the pirate sites 

But none of this debate matters at all until publishers decide to take the plunge and go day-and-date with their legitimate digital releases. Until that happens, and a reader's only option is a $4 single issue vs "free", "free" is going to remain an amazingly compelling option. 

July 23, 2010 12:46 pm Hm; this would be the sixth comic-reading app on my iPad if I download it... At some point, there will need to be some consolidation of these various apps simply to keep libraries manageable. Right now, it's akin to using a different app to listen to a particular CD you have ripped to your device -- I understand that this is a land grab since the iPad is so new and everybody is trying to grab its own piece of the market, but at some point there will need to be some contraction just to keep things manageable for consumers.

May 28, 2010 8:57 pm Not sure how the PSP store works, but IDW's got a pretty decent selection of 99 cent issues in its iDevice store. Buying those is a no-brainer, IMO.

May 28, 2010 2:57 pm it's not on the iPhone app yet; hopefully this means it'll be there soon.