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Originally Posted by Trubu
I'm at a point now where I don't want any more paper cluttering up my life, so if it's not available digitally, it's not getting bought except in very rare circumstances. Listen, media companies: I WANT TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY. Why do you insist on making it so difficult?
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The thing is that they don't even need to be perfectly caught up with the paper edition, the digital comics unlimited system that marvel have is pretty decent already even if you are just renting the comics rather than actually owning them. For me all it would really need to do to fix it up would be:
- stop the artificial issue gaps in older storylines, those won't make me go out and buy the tpb and will just annoy me making me less likely to avoid the more convenient route of cbr/cbz that don't have the same problem.
- get all your back catalogue online, the piracy alternative manages this and even if you don't admit it, those are your actual competitors not paper editions.
- release digital versions closer to the release of the paper editions, you are not protecting paper sales by not doing this, you are simply making your product less appealing in general. A gap of about 3 months or so should be more than sufficient protection for paper sales and has the obvious benefit that it is close enough that if somebody decided they wanted to switch to paper editions for some books then they could more readily do so than if they were a year behind.
There is one other obvious change that needs to be made and that is for them to have the same subscription system available on more formats such as the ipad and in the future on any other tablets or colour ereaders that show up, making it as easy as possible for people to get your product just seems the logical option.