2011年1月27日星期四

There's no collectibility to comics downloaded on the Comixology app

There's no collectibility to comics downloaded on the Comixology app. A digital comic's worth is solely related to how wonderful it is to read. This feels right. Let the collectors hoard coins.I've read online about debates comics publishers and pundits have about the affect selling new comics through the iPad would have on comics replica Omega 3538.3 Men's Watch shops, which stay in business thanks to customers like me who show up to buy the new week's books. This is a red herring. I don't care if a comic that I can buy on my iPad is new or old. I just want something that is good to read and that is cheap to buy. I'd like to read it, treasure it or toss it. When I can do that on my iPad, I'll be back.

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the same key traits they do in the comics shop: scarcity and a high cost

Comics on the iPad, sadly, bear the same key traits they do in the comics shop: scarcity and a high cost.While searching for superior options I stumbled across details about Marvel's Digital Comics Unlimited service, a project launched before the publisher sold comics on the iPad. Their Unlimited plan lets people pay a monthly subscription ($10) for access to more than a thousand comics. You have to run it in a web browser. The iPad has a replica Omega 3221.30 Men's Watch web browser! … The iPad's web browser is not compatible with the service. Too bad. That sounds like the perfect comics digital comics service to me, and it won't run on my perfect digital comics device.I've yet to find a way to throw an iPad comic out. This bugs me because of what it implies.

I've recounted many things I find odd with comics on the iPad, but let me leave you with what I think is the oddest: I've yet to find a way to throw an iPad comic out. This bugs me, because of what it implies.I downloaded a comic called Chew that I'd heard good things about. It's about a guy who can read the minds of the beings replica Omega 3506.31 Men's Watch whose meat he eats; and it's set in an America where chicken is illegal. It's a good set-up, but I didn't love the comic. I won't buy the next issues and I don't feel the need to keep the current one. So I deleted it from my iPad. No, I tried to delete it from my iPad. The Comics app lets me delete the downloaded contents of the comic, but it keeps a copy of the cover and description of the first issue in the only-alphabetical “my comics” section on my app.

I can't figure out why they won't let me scrub the listing for the comic from my iPad, as I would delete a downloaded song or movie bought through iTunes. Perhaps it reflects a view of comics readers I've assumed publishers of comics have, a replica Omega 3577.50 Men's Watch view that doesn't describe me: the hoarder, the collector. Not me. I'm a readerics publishers sell comics in real shops, and they sell many of them as collectibles. They release a new issue of Batman with two covers, assuming some people will be enticed to invest in the rare variant. I love that digital comics can defy that system.

Imagine if I wanted to take a risk on a series for which I couldn't be bothered to pay full price

Imagine if I wanted to take a risk on a series for which I couldn't be bothered to pay full price. This is the traditional comic reader's dangerous delight. We scoot to the side aisles of a comics shop and dig into the back issue bins, hoping to find old comics that might be worth a risk for a buck or two. We find the quarter bins and trawl for gems. replica Omega 3576.5 Men's Watch Some do this as collectors, looking for rare items that can flip for high dollars on eBay. I've never done that. I'm a reader and I enjoy the promise that some forgotten comic from the 90s or 80s or whenever might be a great read… and I've enjoyed the quest to find the issues that go around it, to complete the story.

The iPad, with its digital downloads, has the ability to offer reams of forgotten comics and sell them to us comics readers cheap.The iPad, with its digital downloads, has the ability to offer reams of forgotten comics and sell them to us comics replica Omega 3507.51.00 Men's Watch readers cheap. Unfortunately, that's not what Comics and its competing apps do. They make a broad but shallow pool of content available — little from the 80s, even less from the decades before — and all for prices you have to think twice about.

Shopping for comics on the iPad should feel risk-free. I can type in Keith Giffen's name and see if the great super-hero comics writer has some old classic I didn't know existed and buy all the issues. I don't want to hesitate. But when I start developing a taste for the writing of a guy named Nick Spencer and can only find some half-finished replica Omega 3211.31 Men's Watch mini-series that cost $2 and bear no indication in the app shop if the rest of the issues will ever come out, all I see is risk. It's easy to stay away.I want to buy wacky old Superman comics from the 50s on my iPad. I want to buy the full Brian Michael Bendis Daredevil run for a reasonable price. I don't see these options.

If we're counting value in terms of time-to-consume

If we're counting value in terms of time-to-consume, a $2 comic I can read in 15 minutes can't compete with a $2 TV episode that lasts 22 minutes or a $2 video game I can play for hours.Aside from the freebies, there isn't a comic in the Comics app that isn't more expensive than it seems like it should be.If we're counting value compared to replica Omega 3210.51.00 Men's Watch what I get from a printed copy of a comic, the iPad comics price fails. Most of the printed comics I buy in the shop I frequent cost $3-4, but the increased cost seems to be justified by the more difficult manufacturing process of printing a comic than in uploading one to the Comixology server. More importantly, I know today a print comic will last long enough for me to read it years from now; I have no idea if my Comixology comics will.

I can also pass a printed comic I buy at the shop to a friend.What's stranger is that, below $2, the most common price I see for comics — the only thing that seems like a deal when searching for comics on the iPad — is free. The publishers working with the Comixology people and other comics-selling apps smartly realize that a replica Omega 3211.30 Men's Watch free first issue of a series is an enticing first bite that will encourage me to decide to pay for the whole meal. I'm fine with that, but I'm surprised that the clever sales tactics end there. Why are second and third issues of a mini-series even sold separately?

Who, when faced with the opportunity to buy the rest of a six-issue mini-series listed on the Comics iPad store, would skip issue 4? Wouldn't the standard reader of these digital comics, once intrigued by a free or discounted first issue, want to buy the full remainder of the work?One of the most mystifying facts of the iPad Comics shop is replica Omega 3539.50 Men's Watch that you don't even get a discount for buying the full series. A six-issue series costs a full $12. The 12-issue Crisis on Infinite Earths, a 1986 series from DC would run me $22 on the iPad thanks to a free first-issue promotion. I can get the printed collection from Amazon for $20 plus shipping. And that's for a comic that is broadly liked and desired.

2011年1月16日星期日

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