Comments on: Dark Horse Digital Pushes Print Sales

By: Dark Horse Daily $500 Digital Comic Giveaway at San Diego Con » Comics Worth Reading

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:19:13 +0000

[...] also have to be connected to read the comics; they’re not downloadable. Plus, some of them omit some of the print content. Likely due to licensing issues, some Dark Horse publications (most obviously the Star Wars and [...]

By: D. Peace

D. Peace — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:42:24 +0000

I find this incredibly disappointing. Dark Horse and every other publisher should mean what they say and say what they mean when it comes to digital distribution… the days of using digital as a means of giving us a little snippet or “preview” sized portion of the entire work are over. This reminds me of the kind of meager “we’ll dip our toes in the water” attitude that publishers have had for the past decade now. I understand that they’re trying to drive potential customers into the shops because the shops are the only business that the comic book industry had known until now and it’s awfully hard to pull away from that teat entirely but new media and new frontiers in publishing needs commitment and incentive-loading the dying print system seems really backward to me.

By: Matt M.

Matt M. — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:40:29 +0000

Well there’s a name I haven’t seen in a long time. Hello, John.

As for print/digital, nobody yet and that especially includes DC with their latest plans, has yet to grasp that digital and print markets are different things. And honestly, playing lip service to the DM doesn’t really help their print side. Unless they’re actually aiming at people who aren’t actually buying comics right now in either form.

Pricing chapters of a story for three bucks each online, however, is a non-starter.

By: John Jakala

John Jakala — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:34:36 +0000

I thought that was strange, too, but since I don’t have any interest in Star Wars or Frank Miller at this point, it didn’t bother me much and I decided to buy it. (My first digital comic purchase!)

There were a couple clunkers (Neal Adams’
“Blood” was particularly bad) but overall it succeeded as an anthology – I enjoyed more of the pieces than I disliked.

I’m more excited about some of DH’s other digital offerings — FINDER collections for six bucks apiece seems like a great deal!