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InShaneee posted:I could still see that as a threat. I imagine, ideally, Amazon would love it if they could dismantle Comixology and get people buying comics straight from the Amazon store. I guess that's vaguely plausible but Amazon's website is incredibly poorly laid out to sell something with a release schedule like comics and I'd imagine overall sales would sharply decrease if Comixology went away. If anything I'd think they'd try to infect Comixology with more cross-media purchasing options.
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Zachack posted:I guess that's vaguely plausible but Amazon's website is incredibly poorly laid out to sell something with a release schedule like comics and I'd imagine overall sales would sharply decrease if Comixology went away. If anything I'd think they'd try to infect Comixology with more cross-media purchasing options. "Want this in print? Follow this link to our Amazon page!"
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Jun 29, 2015 03:17
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The new Comixology app is loving awful.
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Aphrodite posted:The new Comixology app is loving awful. What's wrong with it? Seems an improvement on my iPad.
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Jun 29, 2015 05:58
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The most useful list, unread, is on the bottom and there are no new download/unread markers on the series list.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:01
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Jun 29, 2015 06:10
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Jun 29, 2015 16:07
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zoux posted:Whoa. Comixology to offer subscription service. Haven't Marvel seen a solid conversion rate from Unlimited subscribers to individual sales? And I'm not sure publishers are going to be the ones that might have a problem with it. It's likely to be creators, much like the Taylor Swift thing. Publishers, assuming the books in the library have already broken even/made a profit, probably don't care, because they're getting paid either way. Creator royalties, though, are possibly going to be a sticking point.
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Jun 29, 2015 16:32
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Imagine if that got bundled in with Prime.
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zoux posted:Whoa. Comixology to offer subscription service. I only have two reservations, the first being "readers [...] then have unlimited access to select comic books". What do they mean by "select"? The second is the price point. Marvel's  price is perfect. I don't know if I'd be willing to pay more than that. Other than that, though, 
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Gaz-L posted:Haven't Marvel seen a solid conversion rate from Unlimited subscribers to individual sales? I dunno about Marvel saying anything, but I read a blog post that speculated that Marvel sees a benefit from Unlimited. In my case it certainly was a gateway to buying comics as they are issued new, something I never would've done had I not developed an affinity for characters and creative teams from reading like, a billion comics on MU. Phylodox posted:I only have two reservations, the first being "readers [...] then have unlimited access to select comic books". What do they mean by "select"? The second is the price point. Marvel's Could be that select just means "not new" comics.
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Jun 29, 2015 16:34
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Much like how Prime or Kindle Unlimited don't offer every single show/movie/book they have, you'd get a curated selection of big hits, fun curios and Sturgeon's Law bullshit. Edit: If any publisher's likely to be iffy about it, it's DC, considering they've had every opportunity to do something like this before, and resolutely haven't.
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Marvel is likely out, too, since they have their own service. Everything else is going to depend on individual creators.
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Jun 29, 2015 16:41
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Gaz-L posted:Much like how Prime or Kindle Unlimited don't offer every single show/movie/book they have, you'd get a curated selection of big hits, fun curios and Sturgeon's Law bullshit. If they were smart they'd take the opportunity to get the benefits of Marvel Unlimited without having to do any of the work.
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Jun 29, 2015 16:44
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Amazon is going to have serious leverage as the primary distributor of digital comics. They can be like, if you want to sell any digital comics through Amazon/Comixology you have to participate.
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zoux posted:Amazon is going to have serious leverage as the primary distributor of digital comics. They can be like, if you want to sell any digital comics through Amazon/Comixology you have to participate. They could run into serious issues with the DOJ if they start doing that.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:05
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Jun 29, 2015 18:08
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Taerkar posted:Anything good from the Uncanny Avengers sale? I liked it, especially the first arc...but I also like Axis...so yeah ymmv. I do think the first arc is genuinely really good in the pay off with the NY street freak out. The rest is kind of confusing if you've never read that much X Men....or any Age of Apocalypse stuff.
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Gaz-L posted:Much like how Prime or Kindle Unlimited don't offer every single show/movie/book they have, you'd get a curated selection of big hits, fun curios and Sturgeon's Law bullshit. I thought DC can't really do a service like that due to how they structured contracts. The Marvel contract stuff that let them screw Kirby is the same thing that lets them have an Unlimited service because the creators basically get no (or minimal) say over what's done with the books. I don't know how something like Image would work since it's massively creator-owned - if, say, Fraction said no then that's that for his comics. I would hope a sort of rights collector would appear, though, as a money-making venture by scooping up old rights to various long out of print stuff for cheap and getting a good rate out of Amazon for the whole thing. A lot of euro comics, Heavy Metal, comic strips, etc.
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Zachack posted:I thought DC can't really do a service like that due to how they structured contracts. The Marvel contract stuff that let them screw Kirby is the same thing that lets them have an Unlimited service because the creators basically get no (or minimal) say over what's done with the books. I don't know how something like Image would work since it's massively creator-owned - if, say, Fraction said no then that's that for his comics. As for Image, yeah, it's almost certainly going to come down to individual creators. Image owns NOTHING they publish, and I doubt they structured their contracts to specifically allow for all-you-can-eat style distribution. They'd probably have to add new terms to the contracts before anything can be added.
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Endless Mike posted:DC's "problematic" (read: favorable to creators) contracts only applied to a pretty specific time period before collections were really a thing. Even still, the issue is generally that DC wouldn't make enough money to make reprints of those comics worth the cost of printing, especially since a lot of them would have to be recolored, or at least re-separated for modern printing. Simply doling out cost-free digital editions *shouldn't* be a problem. There's a little up-front on converting to Comixology's guided view, but I bet a lot of those comics are already on there. Then why hasn't DC ever offered a catalog service or whatever the proper term is for a thing like MU?
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zoux posted:Then why hasn't DC ever offered a catalog service or whatever the proper term is for a thing like MU?
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I can see where they're coming from. For someone like me who has a few Marvel titles I try to keep up with, Unlimited is a great savings. I'm spending much less per month, they're getting less per month. On the other hand, there are no DC titles I keep up with month to month, so if I wanted to sign up for a subscription service of theirs they'd be getting more (than no) money from me. I guess it's about balancing the loss from regular readers versus the gain from casual or non-readers.
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zoux posted:Then why hasn't DC ever offered a catalog service or whatever the proper term is for a thing like MU? I should note I'm speculating, but it's definitely the older contracts that are the issue, not the more modern ones.
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DC didn't go in on that Scribd deal either though, and that's also offloading the hard part onto someone else.
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Yeah, the point I'm thinking in my head and haven't actually stated is that if they choose not to be part of this, it's not the contracts holding them back, it's probably just a corporate decision.
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Gaz-L posted:DC didn't go in on that Scribd deal either though, and that's also offloading the hard part onto someone else. Is it possible that they knew this Comixology unlimited was coming and have signed an exclusivity agreement? I'm not getting my hopes up, but to have a unlimited service using Comixology technology that includes DC and Marvel would be a dream come true.
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If your library has Hoopla Comics service, be on the lookout for DC adding 200 books throughout the summer. 18 titles so far, some New 52, lots of popular Batman trades, first volumes Sandman, Fables, Preacher for now.... could get really good! Oh, and this Image sale? Wytches, Descender, Bitch Planet, Kaptara, and The Fade Out have all been good to me. I'm going in on the first trade of ODY-C for $5, call out any of your favorites and tempt me into succumbing!
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I'm going to nab Nameless (can't go wrong with Morrison and Burnham) and Southern Cross (Cloonan!) based on the creators alone. The DC Eisner winners sale is pretty rad, too.
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It's too many good comics. How good is Ex Machina? Any other must buys? Already completed Sandman, this could get pricey.
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From the DC comics sale, I like the majority of that. Of the lesser known things: AmVamp is fun if you're into horror stories set in the past. Daytripper is amazing. I only read the first 12 issues or so of Ex Machina, which I felt was fine, but didn't feel like it was going anywhere new after that (I hear people were mad over the ending). Don't really know anything about The Wake.
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Space Fish posted:If your library has Hoopla Comics service, be on the lookout for DC adding 200 books throughout the summer. 18 titles so far, some New 52, lots of popular Batman trades, first volumes Sandman, Fables, Preacher for now.... could get really good!
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Get 100% of that DC/Vert sale. e: The Ex Machina collections which aren't on sale aren't much more expensive than the singles, which are, so you don't gotta rush on that one. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Harbinger sale. Buy them all. Best valiant series, in my opinion. Or just get Imperium, but really all Harbinger is extremely good.
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Uthor posted:Don't really know anything about The Wake. It's not good. I'm OK with Murphy art but it can be divisive, and the story is a total mess culminating in a giant unearned last issue info dump. The first half was a good horror story but the back half... eesh. It comes across like a rpg source book meant to promote fan fiction. Not to big on Nameless so far, either. It mostly comes across as empty, although I haven't read the latest issue.
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Zachack posted:Not to big on Nameless so far, either. It mostly comes across as empty, although I haven't read the latest issue. Shame, 'cause I just bought it.
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To counter Nameless is Morisson and Burnham doing existential Lovecraftian style horror and has been pretty good so far.
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Endless Mike posted:I've only read the stuff you've mentioned, so I can't really add anything. Spread was interesting, but didn't grab me. Might read better in chunks. I got on ODY-C when it started and it seems like something that DEFINITELY reads better in trades, so I'm holding off until it's further along. Gorgeous art, but reading the Odyssey in monthly chunks is not ideal. Check out No Mercy (Alex de Campi writing, Carla Speed McNeil on art) for a seriously under-the-radar non-superhero, non-supernatural comic that's doing some cool stuff and has super high potential. Maybe one for people who dig Ms. Marvel, but have no real need to stay all-ages or superhero or mainstream. (It has some of the same attention to "how teens are with technology," but is getting Lord-of-the-Flies dark quick.) http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/alex-de-campi-shows-no-mercy-to-teenagers-in-latest-series https://www.comixology.com/No-Mercy-1/digital-comic/211084
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Oh, sweet. Jenn Manley Lee on colors, too. Will definitely need to check this out. (and also need to read the second Finder omnibus that I borrowed from a friend)
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onefish posted:Check out No Mercy (Alex de Campi writing, Carla Speed McNeil on art) for a seriously under-the-radar non-superhero, non-supernatural comic that's doing some cool stuff and has super high potential. Maybe one for people who dig Ms. Marvel, but have no real need to stay all-ages or superhero or mainstream. (It has some of the same attention to "how teens are with technology," but is getting Lord-of-the-Flies dark quick.) What if I don't think Archie vs. Predator (also by de Campi) is that good except for the spectacle?
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