Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital By Tom Spurgeon
* Mark Waid and John Rogers have secured a line-wide print publishing deal for their Thrillbent line with IDW. I think a print deal with quality participants is good for an on-line effort: it increases the reach, monetizes some material that may not have been monetized when it was digital and actually makes people think of the contrast between the two avenues for publication.
* this might be more appropriate to the "Bundled" or "By Request" columns, but it looks like this Digital Manga project revolving around Osamu Tezuka-related projects has stalled in a significant way. It was a criticized from a variety of standpoints.
* Anime News Network has run the press release regarding Viz's recently announced digital content expansion.
* finally, Brigid Alverson talks to Sam Costello about the horror site Split Lip.
