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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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It's an interesting article, but there are significant differences between cartoons and e-readers. The largest one is that published cartoons were extremely constrained: a newspaper only had room for, what 30 strips? Given some variation in minor strips, this means that maybe 100 comic strip writers, tops, could be published in the papers. Not only is this a small number, but it also meant that the strips that were published had to appeal to the broadest possible general audience.
(It also means that a reader could read a huge portion of all available comic strips: just taking a morning and evening paper (as my family did 20 years ago) meant that you had access to 50-60% of what was published.
By contrast, 250,000 new titles are published in the US every year. Not that there aren't unserved niches or high quality book overlooked by traditional publishers...but to a much much smaller extent than is the case for comics.