| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 18:26 Last Edited By: Shieldbearer |
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Marvel Comics will soon be available on Apple's new iPad. If they decide to cut the price of issues down to, lets say, $.99, would you stop purchasing hard copies of your favorite comics and get them digitally?
I am tempted, especially if they do collections for a discount price. That and I will save a ton of shelf space.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-ipad-app-100401.html
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| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 22:59 Last Edited By: Pole805 |
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Ipad?
Didn't they just come out with the newest version of the iTouch? I just got and iTouch to.
Apple is to far ahead.
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| Posted: 04 Apr 2010 04:18 |
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See it in action on youtube. I think the iPad will be perfect for any book medium. Comics will look real nice.
youtube video of marvel comics on ipad
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 20:13 |
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You know when they started talking about the Ipad, I said if they come up with a Marvel Comics App, I'll have to buy it.
So now the question is not if I will do this, but how they will let me use it.
The current digital marvel subscription is something that as soon as I get an extra fifty bucks, to spend on me (as opposed ot the wife, kids, and the moutnain of debt we have all built together) I want to get, but because they don't have new issues in the digital comics archive, it's not really worth it to me, since I would still have to buy new comics every week.
They do a situation where you can start to get new comics online, along with the old, that would be awesome.
They would probably have to go to a per issue plan, since if the archive is constantly growing, they would likely wind up losing money on the deal. Even now people wait for the TPB for some series, so you could see people just getting the subscription with an understandging, that like Cable, they're just going to be five to six month's behind the comic stores.
But if you have a 99 cent cover price for everybook from FF #1 on down through the latest Deadpool, you could see people just blowing hundreds of dollars on the back issues, building their own ultimate Ipad archive.
In that way, the Ipad, could do for the publishing industry what the Ipod did for the music industry, but it's likely going to take something like the Marvel Ap, and people building these E collections that they can cross refernce easily to show people how to do it.
I mean you can use it for comics like this, you could likewise use it to build your own portable encyclapedia, where you just have a huge collection of articles, and magazines that you can refernce at the touch of a button. If your thing is politics you can have every issue of Time Magazine going back to the 40's, if you are a scientist, you can have all the current relevant information on biotech.
Yeah, if they do it right this could be as big as the Ipod.
Wow, this will change arguments about continuity forever. If you can at the press of a button just pull up the issue that proves your point?
I wonder how long before playboy follow suit? I would love to be able to access soem of the great political articles and fiction that filled their magazine back in the 70's & 80's, oh and I hear they had a nice section on nature photography each issue as well.
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 22:03 |
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My Mom rang my doorbell early Saturday morning and surprised me with an iPad. The Marvel Comics app was the first thing I got on it. It looks great and has some really sweet features including 6 free books to get you started.
But at $1.99 per issue I haven't actually bought anything yet and don't know if I will.
Now, if you could get back issues for 99 cents? I'd be all over it. I'd easily spend hundreds of dollars happily.
For now I'm just using the iPad to read old books from htmlcomics.com. It works great for that.
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| Posted: 06 Apr 2010 00:57 Last Edited By: PS Schmucker |
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I've seen the Ipad on YouTube and it looks freakin sweet! Yes, like most others....I WANT ONE!
However, being a collector I still HAVE to collect hard copies of my Cap comics.
I think reading them on an IPad would be nice and supercool to do.
Nothing compares though then having the actual comic book in hand. Also it's cheaper to me to have the original comic as well. ($1.99 vs ($1.58)
Let me explain....
I am a mail subscriber to Cap though Marvel.
If you are a subscriber, you can renew your subscription for $37.94 for 2 years.
(That breaks down to $1.58 an issue, shipped)
A while back I renewed my subscription till the year 2016 at that price LOL!
Then a few months ago they have increased comic books to $4.00 an issue, and who knows prices may keep on increasing over time.
The thing is, even though the price goes up I'm still locked in at $1.58 per issue....shipped till the year 2016.
That's not a bad deal at all.
(For the record, that $1.58 renewal subscription price is still active even though they just raised prices a few months ago, so subscribers take advantage while you can)
I'm not knocking the Ipad, I still want one.
I'm just saying though that I would prefer hard copies of my Cap comics.
The hard copies are cheaper for me currently, and plus I have every Cap comic in my collection since the Silver age. So being a collector I just can't stop collecting hard copies now.
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| Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:19 |
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You know that's actually a problem for me.
I don't have a subscription primarily because I just really love the experience of going to the comic shop once a week.
But at the same time, I am not a collector, and the piles of comic books that build up in my house is getting to be a problem. I don't want to just recylce them because well, I like ot go back and re read them, but at the same time, I can't have them piling up.
It would be great to have them on a disk available at my fingertips, but then how do you give up the whole comic shop experience?
Oh, and of course, the other down side to a mail subscription is the delay in getting the books, but I suppose that wouldn't be a problem with Icomics.
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| Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:38 |
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Well as for the mail subscription delay, it usually gets to me anywhere from 7-10 days AFTER the street release date. While that sounds like a pain, I don't have a problem with it because it still gets to me about every 30 days consistently.
I hear you on the whole comic shop experience thing.
I still do need to go to the comic shop, only just not as much. Maybe 1-2 times a month to get any supplies, other special issues I need, one-shots, or special orders.
This Ipad thing sounds really cool though. I would love to collect comics on it and have an entire database at my fingertips.
Is is possible to share or back up files from it?
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| Posted: 06 Apr 2010 15:17 |
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I would assume it's got the same protocals as on the Ipod, that you can save it to your hard drive, but might have some trouble just sending a whole issue to your friend. But I'm sure there are relativly easy hacks around that.
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2011 13:06 |
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Surely will not going to stop purchasing the favorite comics but there can be any other way to cope up with it.
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Are these comics available in PDF format.
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