[...] went from being a much-heralded free download site that actually paid its creators serious money to a much-derided failure after being acquired by Platinum in 2008, but now Sean [...]

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I went over to ComicMix to send in a PR and found the effort fairly frustrated. I sent one through the generic post-hole that comes up under the ‘Contact Us’ button.

Is there another, better place to send press releases to?

Bill

I just get a little queasy when I send my properties over to the land of pirates for a walkabout.

So far, Verizon is the big advertiser. I dunno if they sell their cell phone services there around the globe or not.

By the way, the Bill Mantlo tribute book is up for download on WOWIO now. I think its a worthy cause. I kicked in money and digits.

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3387

Bill

The problem is that the service is paid for by advertising and its US companies advertising in Wowio. Why should they pay for eyeballs in England when they’re selling, I dunno, Reese’s Pieces?

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The only downside for me as a reader is the limitation of only 30 downloads a month. Three a day is fine, but only 30 a month means that you get out of the dialy habit of checking and downloading.

One of the issues of Pantheon dealt with a villain who killed anyone he looked at. It was haunting stuff.

There is a risk in sending your valuable content to parts of the world that do not respect copyright protection.

I think the reward is higher, but that is a judgment that others may not agree with.

And Glenn, I’ll send you something next cycle.

Bill

Dani, supposition is that it’s based on the advertising. It’s a lot easier to sell US-company ads that will be shown to X number of US viewers. It’s harder to sell worldwide-suitable ads or figure out what (number less than X) were part of the target audience the company wanted.