Digital Comics Finally Get Subscriptions and Discounted Collections

This is one of those time when you see the news program and reckon to yourself , await , they just got that ? Comixology — the self-aggrandizing digital comics dispersion weapons platform and the military service that powers the prescribed apps of Marvel , DC , Image , and other publishing company — finally has subscriptions . It also got the digital version of graphic novel , ultimately , for beneficial measure .

On the subscriptions side , you could go to the Comixology web site and pick title to support to , and they ’re mechanically pitch to your iPad . dewy-eyed . But it replaces a system that would only alert you when titles you were follow would come uncommitted . This is especially important since the major publisher make all their major titles available digitally the same twenty-four hours as print now . Be warned , though , the subscription cost is full price — so $ 4 for a new 10 - Men ledger — which is a variety from old schooling print subscriptions that give you a nice discount .

For the big money , which are actually sort of the big plenty here , you ’ll get whole events — think big arcs like Civil War or Infinite Crisis — and full creator runs , like all of Rick Remender ’s Uncanny X - Force , at a big discout . Digital comics proofreader are used to sales like this , but these will just be available all the clip .

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The bundle data formatting make sensation digitally , since it ’s an evolution of the idea of the graphical novel . Originally , that formatting was just a collecting of individual arcs , bound together so you would n’t lose them , so they ’d bet a little prissy on a ledge , and to get the price down , just a little . But with digital , prices for assemblage have usually just added up the prices for the individual issues , and maybe — maybe — subtracted a one dollar bill or so . To get a deal you ’d have to wait for time - sensitive sale , which you ’d have to see every Monday or Friday . There was no shelf to seem good on , and no real chance of lose single issues , so the economic value was gone .

These bundles are more like a digital motorbus , though — a format that never really catch on like the pictorial novel did.37 issuesof X - Force for $ 50 , or56 issuesof early Marvel poppycock for $ 75 . It ’s a big step forward for comics pricing , but you also have to wonder if it still lose the point entirely .

Earlier this year , Marvel rolled out apps for its subscription service , Marvel Unlimited . This meant you could read all the strip you wanted on iPads or Android devices for $ 10 a month or $ 70 a year — the catch being its library is n’t quite as flesh out , and the reading experience is n’t as quiet . Still , while reasonably priced package are a nice nudge in the proper direction , it also finger a bit like launching videodisc Boxed Set pricing for iTunes into a Netflix splurge - uptake existence — especially since a quite a little of the lot of the omnibus was display it on your ledge or lending it to a champion .

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