Dat gaat hier helemaal de verkeerde kant op, niet waar ?!?
"Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to
reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing
the original issues in which such characters appeared.
Still, it represents perhaps
the comics industry's most aggressive Web push yet. Even as their
creations -- from Iron Man to Wonder Woman -- become increasingly
visible in pop culture through new movies and video games, old-school
comics publishers rely primarily on specialized, out-of-the-way comic
shops for distribution of their bread-and-butter product.
"You don't have that spinner rack of comic books sitting in the
local five-and-dime any more," said Dan Buckley, president of Marvel
Publishing. "We don't have our product intersecting kids in their
lifestyle space as much as we used to."
Translate "kids' lifestyle space" into plain English and you get
"the Internet." Marvel's two most prominent competitors currently offer
online teasers designed to drive the sales of comics or book
collections.
Dark Horse Comics now puts its
monthly anthologies "Dark Horse Presents" up for free viewing on its
MySpace site. The images are vibrant and large.
DC Comics has also put issues up on MySpace, and recently launched
the competition-based Zuda Comics, which encourages users to rank each
other's work, as a way to tap into the expanding Web comic scene.
Company president Paul Levitz said he expects to put more original
comics online in coming years.
"We look at anything that connects comics to people," Levitz said.
"The most interesting thing about the online world to me is the
opportunity for new forms of creativity. ... It's a question of what
forms of storytelling work for the Web?"
For its mature Vertigo imprint, DC offers weekly sneak peeks at the
first five or six pages of upcoming issues. The publisher also gives
out downloadable PDF files of the first issues in certain series, timed
to publication of the series in book or graphic novel format.
The Web release of DC's "Y the Last Man" sent sales of that book
collection soaring at Bridge City Comics in Portland, Ore., the shop's
owner Michael Ring said.
"They really do tend to be feeder systems," Ring said of online comics. "They give people that initial taste."
For Marvel, the general public has often already gotten its initial
taste through movies like "Spider-Man" or the "Fantastic Four"
franchises.
The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the
origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99
monthly with a year-long commitment. For that price, they'll be able to
poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee's 1963 creation
"Amazing Spider-Man" at their leisure, along with more recent titles
like "House of M" and "Young Avengers." Comics can be viewed in several
different formats, including frame-by-frame navigation.
Ring expects Marvel's effort to put a slight dent in the back-issue
segment of the comic shop industry, where rare, out-of-print titles
sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay and at trade shows.
Though most comic fans are collectors, some simply want to catch up
on the backstory of their favorite characters and would no longer have
to pay top dollar to do so.
About 2,500 issues will be available at launch of Marvel Digital Comics, with 20 more being released each week.
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Source: http://www.physorg.com/news114159050.html
En Amazon blijft ook niet achter:
"CNET News.com reported last weekthat Amazon would be debuting its much-delayed e-book reader, which the retailer on Monday started selling for $399.
Kindle tips the scales at a total 10.3 ounces--"That's less than a
paperback book," Bezos said--and uses an "electronic ink" technology to
mimic paper, not a computer screen. There is no backlight. Currently,
the screen is black-and-white; Amazon executives have confirmed that E Ink, which manufactures the screen technology for Kindle as well as for other e-book readers like the Sony Reader, has a prototype of a color display; however, that technology is not yet ready for market.
The battery life, company representatives said, will last several
days to a week. A charger can juice up the battery in a matter of two
hours.
Notably, Kindle does not require a PC for synchronization or any
software to be installed. "Instead of shopping from your PC, you shop
directly from the device. The store is on the device, and then the
content is wirelessly and seamlessly delivered to the device," Bezos
explained.
Amazon's new "Kindle Store" now stocks more than 90,000 titles, "including 101 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers and new releases, which are $9.99, unless marked otherwise," according to a release from the company." Source: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9819942-7.html
Tegen dat ik oud en versleten ben, gaat het zo:
"Allé Bompa, papier dat is nog van in den tijd dat er dinosauriërs rondliepen. Opfikken die handel !!"
Enjoy !!
27-11-2007 om 00:18
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