pip! I still go into my local comics shoppe and buy several each month at full price :> .. The vendor seems to be doing alright there too... but there probably is a little attrition now and then. I still like looking thru something I can wrap my wings around, anytime, without having to fire up mah computer... There are some benefits from online art also, to be sure, but I think both mediums still have a useful place. It does allow us to be more picky these days about what we buy that is printed on trees, too... ^v^
Oh, I think there'll always be books of some kind. ^__^ I just didn't want it to have been a total shock to create something that few people wanted, when I could easily have asked. But now that I HAVE asked it looks like books are still Good Things To Have. :)
I disagree. As does my collection of Footrot Flats, MAD and countless graphic novels.
There's always a place for hard copy, especially when sharing with friends at dinners and parties, or showing off the book collection.
However, there's a solid market developing for e-book versions too. Not everyone has the time or access to web sites but wants to read on the plane/train/bus etc.
I believe this so much I'm starting a local publish on demand (ebook and hard copy) company.
My place is mostly library as well. I'd hoped I wasn't an anachronism quite yet. And where is your company located? (Since I am getting ready to become published...)
Yep! Trying to use an ebook reader in bed or by the fire is just not the same as a real book.
I'm in Australia unfortunately and at this early stage of the business I'm limited to standard sized paper (A4 and A5) but I'm doing perfect binding paperbacks, and have an e-store to sell them from.
I'm happy to be the South East Asian (Oceana to the Northerners LOL) publisher/supplier! I'd imagine postage from here to North America would put most people off and to be honest the likes of Lulu and Wowio would make the most sense if you don't get a purchase agreement with a volume publisher.
If I had the money I'd be buying print comics. Now, the smart thing to do is obvious-- add extra content in the print version that's not in the web comic. One of my favorite webcomics actually has extra pages not found online.
One example was an epic battle to defend a city and the print version has about 5 extra pages of the combat which added much more detail to that plot point.
What I'm doing, old friend, is starting over completely! Much of the first book will have a lot of the Plan Nine version, but really it's going to be my beginning of presenting my whole work in book form. So there'll be less of a "one-shot" and more of a "first volume" feeling about it. (And I'll definitely owe you a copy... ^_^)
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I still go into my local comics shoppe and buy several each month at full price :> .. The vendor seems to be doing alright there too... but there probably is a little attrition now and then.
I still like looking thru something I can wrap my wings around, anytime, without having to fire up mah computer... There are some benefits from online art also, to be sure, but I think both mediums still have a useful place. It does allow us to be more picky these days about what we buy that is printed on trees, too... ^v^
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There's always a place for hard copy, especially when sharing with friends at dinners and parties, or showing off the book collection.
However, there's a solid market developing for e-book versions too. Not everyone has the time or access to web sites but wants to read on the plane/train/bus etc.
I believe this so much I'm starting a local publish on demand (ebook and hard copy) company.
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I'm in Australia unfortunately and at this early stage of the business I'm limited to standard sized paper (A4 and A5) but I'm doing perfect binding paperbacks, and have an e-store to sell them from.
I'm happy to be the South East Asian (Oceana to the Northerners LOL) publisher/supplier! I'd imagine postage from here to North America would put most people off and to be honest the likes of Lulu and Wowio would make the most sense if you don't get a purchase agreement with a volume publisher.
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Now, the smart thing to do is obvious-- add extra content in the print version that's not in the web comic. One of my favorite webcomics actually has extra pages not found online.
One example was an epic battle to defend a city and the print version has about 5 extra pages of the combat which added much more detail to that plot point.
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*steams a whistle from his nose to make the point!*
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Waste away! =D
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