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Originally Posted by Alfy
You are right about the resellability part, but no, digital comics are actually cheaper to purchase than the dead tree ones. I feel pricing is the one thing the publishers got right. Then they got fairly to mostly wrong almost everything else: fragmentation of formats, incompatibilities between apps, DRMs, poor coding of the interfaces...
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I don't think they got the price completely right, though Comixology is coming close with DC.
Right now they're selling day and date at same as cover ($2.99), and dropping to $1.99 once the next issue comes out. That part's not too bad. The problem comes when they have a hundred or more back issues going back five to ten years and all of those are $1.99 too.
Price won't be right until the real backlist is down around $0.99 an issue.
As for the interface - Mr. Ploppy is absolutely right - none of the commercial services offer any formats that come anywhere near the ease of use of CBR/CBZ. Nothing else comes anywhere close.