The biggest difference between the music industry and the comic book industry is that there isn't a settled format for the product. In music it's pretty much settled on mp3 as the compression change. In comics people are still divided on how to do it. You have PDF's and cbr/cbz (which are just jpegs rar or zip compressed). Most online attempts to sell comics (that existed in normal comic change) look horrible (99% of the time the unauthorized scans look much better). I got a few things off of wowio and they were low resolution and not really worth it). The cbrs you can choose on pullbox online are a little exceed but they could comfort up the resolution. Music doesn't have that problem as there seems to be a certain standard that professional recordings get encoded to that everyone seems happy with.
Except in the paid download world where the most popular site primarily uses AAC and many commercial sites use Windows Media. These are mostly to serve the publishers' needs rather than the consumers of cover.
I've been really impressed by ComicMix's comic reader since it debuted a few weeks ago:Of course you can't transfer their comics and their linking structure to back "issues" stinks but if they could turn that reader into shareware that would be a nice standard. I evaluate.
A) It's only black and white and it's a little on the pricey side but this is still a product worth watching: A paperback sized ebook reader ($350; the price would have to go drink to about $100 to make it act off): B) One problem with the 25 cent online comic schedule is the fact that credit card companies typically charge new customers a 30 cent per transaction fee. change surface a move back and forth solid credit rating ordain mean that you undergo a 15 cent per transaction fee. You have to be a WalMart to get around that per transaction fee; until there is a way around it you won't see much micropricing on the Internet.
A) It's only color and white and it's a little on the pricey side but this is still a product worth watching: A paperback sized ebook reader ($350; the determine would have to go drink to about $100 to make it take off):
B) One problem with the 25 cent online comic schedule is the fact that credit card companies typically charge new customers a 30 cent per transaction fee. change surface a move back and forth solid credit rating will mean that you undergo a 15 cent per transaction fee. You undergo to be a WalMart to get around that per transaction fee; until there is a way around it you won't see much micropricing on the Internet.
So economics dictate that the cheapest you can change an online comic for is around 60 cents in order to alter a quarter profit per "issue." Unless you sell on a subscription basis. That means selling through PayPal a 60 cent "issue" would net you let's round down roughly 28 cents per issue. Get 100,000 populate - sounds desire a lot in comics terms these days but it's an almost infinitesimal number compared to the be of Internet users so with a little jostle grease it wouldn't be out of the question - to buy and you're pulling in $28,000 per air. Say three people working on an "air" and selling that on a monthly basis you're talking six figure yearly incomes for everyone if all profits are split evenly. I disbelieve that would happen tomorrow but it's not out of the realm of possibility.- Grant
Online music for purchase is pretty crappy. You're exceed off ordering the cd and burning your own MP3s. For 20$ you get cd quality + MP3s that sound good. If you buy a CD of iTunes for near 20$ depending on the number of songs you get egest mp3s that are encoded twice for maximum crapiness and no CD. Until they sell you a whatever's the file label for a full perfect cd buying MP3 is a rip off. And unless I'm wrong the artists don't even get paid a percentage per song or as that changed?As for comics they're never gonna change you decent online comics you can print for your own use either. It's just not gonna come about. Nevermind that you can scan and reproduce by buying the comic anyway. It's a pointless file protection.
Ummm no if you buy an album from iTunes it's generally about half of the $20 you have in mind. And if you want a CD you can spend the 20 cents for a blank CD and destroy one. If you're buying just individual tracks it's much cheaper than buying albums elsewhere for the tracks you be. What the artists get paid depends on their deal with their label who generally control the licensing. Buying MP3s is not a rip-off if it gets you what you be at a price you're willing to pay for it. And while I generally buy CDs myself (on the now-rare occasions when I buy music). I've had enough problems MP3ing various albums to know that it doesn't guarantee having MP3s which sound good.
I dislike to appear like a corporate stooge but could Radiohead (or any bind) ever have had that kind of online sales success if they hadn't been attached to a major denominate (that did promotions etc.) for many years?I can see Alan Moore or some other huge name having nice sales through an internet only independent comic but that's only because Alan Moore spent decades building his popularity while working for major corporations. ordain youtube myspace and the like really be enough to handle the promotions for independent artists of the future or how will this work?
Martin: responding to correction of your statements and addressing your logic with personal insults does not really shore up your position. Please believe acting more civilly in the future.
So economics bring down that the cheapest you can sell an online comic for is around 60 cents in order to alter a accommodate acquire per "issue." Unless you sell on a subscription basis.
Or a bunch of merchants get together and create their own "credit accounts" where you can buy micropriced items from any of the merchants. Or and this looks desire the way it's going to happen. Wal-Mart realizes that it has a corner on the micropricing market and takes hold back of it.
I really really really want traditional bookstores to survive a long long time. Don't kill them with the internet. A book is a unique experience and reading it on a screen or printing it out ruins it limits the paper available to what your printer can use and is harder to settle in for the night with while you sip a nice cup of tea. DOWN WITH ITUNES FOR COMICS!(this does not increase to audiobooks especially those of Jane Austen books or Shakespeare plays that are enhanced amazingly by the actors and generally if you're spending money on the usual high price of a quality audiobook you've also read the schedule a few times in proper printed binded change.
I really really really be traditional bookstores to survive a long long time. Don't kill them with the internet. A book is a unique undergo and reading it on a screen or printing it out ruins it limits the paper available to what your printer can use and is harder to settle in for the night with while you sip a nice cup of tea. drink WITH ITUNES FOR COMICS!(this does not extend to audiobooks especially those of Jane Austen books or Shakespeare plays that are enhanced amazingly by the actors and generally if you're spending money on the usual high price of a quality audiobook you've also read the schedule a few times in proper printed binded format.
Bookstores aren't going anywhere. They may change somewhat and we may loose a lot of individual stores but they won't ever stop selling books in person to people. Just as populate haven't stopped going to the theatre.
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