Lets make things interesting. Lets talk about comixology. It's a service I have been trying out for the last week where you pay 5.99 a month and you have all sorts of comics to choose from to read on your computer or device. Now to go and buy a graphic novel or trade would be more than that and usually anywhere from twice to three times that amount. To buy the digital copy is usually more than that. So to pay that amount and only read one graphic novel in that month is actually worth it to me. Especially since I've read around 5 or 6 graphic novels just this week. That's more than I've read in the last six months to a year. And I'm still in the first free month of the service. I'm pretty sure I'm keeping it. I have a lot I've been wanting to read and just didn't have the funds to get and there's a lot I'm finding that I didn't even know about.
Here's the fun part. There's a comment section on the articles. Lets hear from some folks and get their ideas on it. Just keep it family friendly.
I believe in supporting your local comic book store. I've also lived in an area where the nearest comic book store was two and a half hours in any direction. It's a little hard to pick them up on a regular basis like that. Just this month a new comic book store opened in the next town over from me. It's thirty miles away but for me that's local. I will be finding stuff to get there and pointing people to it in the area and there is also a comic book store on the coast that I've been dealing with for years going to their events and getting books when I'm on the coast and basically feel like they are an extension of my family. They're my nerd family. I have nerd family all over the state of Mississippi.... some in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana too for that fact. Most of them because of that store.
So one question is, "Does this service hurt or hinder brick and mortar stores?" or , "Can it help them by getting more people into reading comics and even finding comics they did not know about?" Comics they may want to start finding in the Stores to get physical copies from.
Myself... I'm gonna use the service to read the books I've been meaning to read for years but never got around to buying. Technically that's books that they wouldn't see the sales on anyway. I will however be looking for those special books that I need a physical copy of and I will be looking in a brick and mortar store for those.
Check out the Comixology site and decide for yourself but don't forget the corner stores either because that's where you build up the community at.
Here's the fun part. There's a comment section on the articles. Lets hear from some folks and get their ideas on it. Just keep it family friendly.
I believe in supporting your local comic book store. I've also lived in an area where the nearest comic book store was two and a half hours in any direction. It's a little hard to pick them up on a regular basis like that. Just this month a new comic book store opened in the next town over from me. It's thirty miles away but for me that's local. I will be finding stuff to get there and pointing people to it in the area and there is also a comic book store on the coast that I've been dealing with for years going to their events and getting books when I'm on the coast and basically feel like they are an extension of my family. They're my nerd family. I have nerd family all over the state of Mississippi.... some in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana too for that fact. Most of them because of that store.
So one question is, "Does this service hurt or hinder brick and mortar stores?" or , "Can it help them by getting more people into reading comics and even finding comics they did not know about?" Comics they may want to start finding in the Stores to get physical copies from.
Myself... I'm gonna use the service to read the books I've been meaning to read for years but never got around to buying. Technically that's books that they wouldn't see the sales on anyway. I will however be looking for those special books that I need a physical copy of and I will be looking in a brick and mortar store for those.
Check out the Comixology site and decide for yourself but don't forget the corner stores either because that's where you build up the community at.