Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* Johanna Draper Carlson has a write-up on Kodansha's e-book program, which is going to be independent of a third-party service and feature very-close-to-print pricing. I guess both are controversial in some circles, although I would have to think that things are so unsettled that there's really no orthodoxy or guaranteed-success model with which to beat anyone's choices over the head. I would imagine that this is more an indignant declaration of preference than a sober analysis yielding bafflement, although both can drive the actual success or failure of such an effort.

* the FPI blog has relaunched. Very snazzy. I sometimes think about revamping this site and then I realize I don't even the time to update it the way I should every day.

* the hobby business news clearinghouse ICv2.com has a round-up of digital news from Comic-Con, some of which we've talked about here and some of which we haven't. It's a solid, succinct post, though. The comiXology news bears repeating; if there was a winner in terms of size-and-scope announcement at that show, it was likely that company.

* Gary Tyrrell at Fleen wishes Jeph Jacques both a 2500-strip and a 10-year anniversary. Tyrrell also looks at recent Kickstarter rumination and talks about what crowd-funding serves and what it might not serve. I think that's a really useful tool, but I also suspect that some of the abuses and crash-and-burns could have been avoided with a slight ramp down on the rhetoric behind the general idea of crowd-funding. But I'm sort of an old guy, so I might be more determined to think that than I should be.

* here's a link to the digital version of Matt Bors' latest. Looks like he's self-selling, or close enough to it, which means the bulk of the cash will go to the cartoonist. I thought that was a highly entertaining book.

* finally, there's a pretty fascinating article here about the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon that ran in the New Yorker two decades ago. The upshot in terms of this columns's coverage area is that it's both found a second life on-line and that it's generated $50K in income for its cartoonist.
 
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