Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* I wish I could say that I've had some encounter with paradigm-shifting on-line news, but most of what I hear is pretty straight-forward. Comixology, who made a big splash last year with its Amazon.com announcement and forceful push of its Submit program, had a much quieter panel on Thursday, the questions from the audience being more from users with particular wants.

* this isn't in any way to denigrate their big content-driven story, the signing of Delcourt. I'm going to have to figure that one out a bit, but it does play on the fact that 1) the BD publishers in general (supported by their ministry of culture) has long wanted a more significant push into North American markets and this could facilitate that, and 2) it does recall the fact that one thing Comixology did when it was jostling for position with a bunch of other competitors was plant a significant service flag in European soil.

* I'd go talk to more webcomics people set up at Comic-Con, but those people terrify me.

* Spike Trotman, a significant and important user of on-line crowdfunding mechanisms and always worth a listen in general, will be speaking in San Francisco today. If I weren't so tired I'd make some joke about how far away the outer rooms of the San Diego Convention Center are.

* finally, Greg Hunter has debuted a new podcast which will be made available through TCJ.com. Bookmark and listen accordingly.
 
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