http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/longbox-an-i-tunes-for-comics-welcome-to-the-future-perhaps/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=9685 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/longbox-an-i-tunes-for-comics-welcome-to-the-future-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-255194 Kenny Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:14:11 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13577#comment-255194 I really suspect that what you will have is either a price point which is so cheap that people just pick it up as it's only 25cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, a micro payment (I seem to remember they didn't quite work) - but then you need to sell lots or where someone thinks that people should pay 'fair worth' for the product. Jamie puts forward a dollar - good luck with that. People who would use this and don't want hard copies will mostly just pinch them through torrents. Comic 'collectors' won't really be interested. The publishers will then be taking full risk on the trade possibly with little of the costs of production having been amortised by serialised issues. I reckon in the end those who have lived with nice page rates can forget them - payments, barring for the very top creators will be slashed by publishers, if they continue to exist at all. More likely a book model will come in - and that will be small advances and sales driven royalties. Many, many creators will make way less than under the current system. I might be wrong but I don't think it's as straightforward as everyone assumes. I really suspect that what you will have is either a price point which is so cheap that people just pick it up as it’s only 25cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, a micro payment (I seem to remember they didn’t quite work) – but then you need to sell lots or where someone thinks that people should pay ‘fair worth’ for the product. Jamie puts forward a dollar – good luck with that. People who would use this and don’t want hard copies will mostly just pinch them through torrents. Comic ‘collectors’ won’t really be interested. The publishers will then be taking full risk on the trade possibly with little of the costs of production having been amortised by serialised issues. I reckon in the end those who have lived with nice page rates can forget them – payments, barring for the very top creators will be slashed by publishers, if they continue to exist at all. More likely a book model will come in – and that will be small advances and sales driven royalties. Many, many creators will make way less than under the current system. I might be wrong but I don’t think it’s as straightforward as everyone assumes.

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