Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* this preview reminds us that cyber-Monday is going to be a big, big, big deal for comics this year, as the infrastructure has improved for digital gift-giving basically all the way across the medium. There are going to be 18 billion sales, both from places like comiXology and from publishers with any kind of digital program they control, for work that's digital and for work that's simply purchased that way.

* Gary Tyrrell updates us on the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, down to either three or four contestants. I think the eventual winner ascends to a higher state of humanity and immediately flies off of the planet to explore the universe, but I could be wrong.

* I don't have the skill set to vet this for you, but here's a webcomics contest that ended up in my inbox. They promise cash prizes and that you get to keep your copyright. So there it is, but be careful.

* I missed Matthew Derman's piece from a while back about the inevitability of digital comics. Mostly it reminds me that we're still unsettled in terms of digital comics' place in the world of arts consumption. That's a couple of distressing words to place right next to one another, but I think you know what I mean. We just don't have nailed down the basic model for people buying digitally -- the what and why and where. It's all over the place. At this point, I think of digital comics as their own thing and a concern for print comics in only specific circumstance due to the way the consumer cultures involved overlap and the margins that have been strained. That doesn't mean we've figured it out yet. I know that it's allowed me to have greater access to serial mainstream comic books, particularly when discounted, but I'm an atypical consumer.

* finally, I also don't know that I ever sat down to read this article on Marvel using the Kobo platform. I'm all for the widest availability of this work as is humanly possible barring my concern for the work itself and the recompense due to the creators.
 
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