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Originally Posted by Lemurion
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 $0.99 an issue.
As for the interface - Mr. Ploppy is absolutely right - none of the commercial services offer any formats that come anywhere near the ease of use of CBR/CBZ. Nothing else comes anywhere close.
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I do mention the problem of the high prices for back issues in my review. However, there are some very nice exceptions. Imagine's "Proof", for example, can be had for 0.99$ an issue for the entire run. Marvel's "Monday comics" is also a nice way to get entire runs for that price. There are some good deals to be had for those who like browsing around.
As for the format, when has any publisher in any media gone for a format as easy to use as the one used for pirated copies? DRMed mp3? DRMed ePub? This is not an unusual trend, however much I dislike it. My biggest beef for now is the complete absence of user owned backups on actual computers, something at was never done for music or ebooks. I am not talking about subscription music here, I mean the equivalent of actually not having any copy of an mp3 but on your iPad. It is incredible these publishers really expect us to be happy leaving our copies on the cloud...