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COMICS!!! |OT| March 2020 | According to Ireland, St. Patrick threw all the snakes out of ComicERA. He missed some.
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Diamond Comics to Stop Receiving Shipments of New Comics Amid Coronavirus Concerns
In a move similar to one announced by Amazon last week, Diamond Comic Distributors is no longer [...]
Well, fuck.Diamond Comics to Stop Receiving Shipments of New Comics Amid Coronavirus Concerns
In a move similar to one announced by Amazon last week, Diamond Comic Distributors is no longer [...]comicbook.com
Diamond Comics to Stop Receiving Shipments of New Comics Amid Coronavirus Concerns
In a move similar to one announced by Amazon last week, Diamond Comic Distributors is no longer [...]
And this is scariest news for comics shops.
I did bring that up later after I had a chance to try it myself, but repeating helpful info is never bad!
Jump from one monopoly to another.Diamond Comics to Stop Receiving Shipments of New Comics Amid Coronavirus Concerns
In a move similar to one announced by Amazon last week, Diamond Comic Distributors is no longer [...]
Let me know when you're a fancy boy.
That's totally possible... Damn. I hope that's not the case.
? I don't understand this post
Don't Marvel/DC already sell their books in their own apps/storefronts as well? On top of their sub services?
Not to mention quite a few publishers and creators offer DRM free options through other avenues. I literally just posted an example of ShortBox using Gumroad to sell comics. I've bought multiple indie books through there already.
What's the problem with Amazon re: digital comics, now?
Aren't those are just skins for CMX/Amazon?
Aren't those are just skins for CMX/Amazon?
I have mixed feelings on all of this, because while I don't like to see people's livelihoods threatened, I also don't think the direct market is doing this medium any favors.
Sub service is useless, you get the books 6 months later, so it's basically a trade wait service.
Are we really going to argue that Amazon/Comixology don't have a huge grip on the digital comics market?
didn't notice Giant Days is on sale atm in Comixology, gonna buy the trades that are not on Unlimited.
Do you want to use more than one service? I don't.
Edit: and it's the publishers that set prices anyhow. There's not really much that Amazon is responsible for there.
Never heard any complaints from people having their comics hosted there (other than that weird Marvel $1 trades thing a while ago)
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Yeah this is good in that it's gonna force the hands of the big publishers. Now they can claim they're only doing the responsible thing because the supply chain is blocked. THIS IS GOOD. STORES SHOULD NOT BE MADE TO BUY COMICS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC.
This seems like a bad idea. Why not still have them shipped out when stores are already closing their doors and only doing online orders or pick up? Now would be the perfect time to have someone compete with Diamond for retailers.
Do we really think they will stop selling them digitally? I thought the largest part of the physical market was always the collectors/speculators, so I dont see why they would stop selling them digitally. But I could see the reasoning behind not wanting to.
Do we really think they will stop selling them digitally? I thought the largest part of the physical market was always the collectors/speculators, so I dont see why they would stop selling them digitally. But I could see the reasoning behind not wanting to.
The biggest problem (or rather benefit) was always just having them all in one place. I would be totally down for each company to have their own digital store front, but its on them to do so. They could have done it at any time if they really wanted to.
The Marvel and DC apps are just CMX apps that are limited to one publisher. That's all still Amazon.
I don't care personally, but it's not healthy for the industry to let one corporation have such a hold on the digital side of things.
No idea, I don't use them. I was under the impression they were still their own direct store fronts.
How are they useless? They are direct digital services through the publishers. They offer great value and let's be real, not everyone can afford to buy new comics every week and stuff like MCU/DCU are much more attractive deals to most people.
And quite a few publishers do not use Comixology as I just stated. Off hand First Second, Koyama, 2000AD, and more are not on there. And quite a few publishers are on multiple storefronts such as Valiant.
Like yeah, Comixology is the biggest one I won't deny that, but I'm not really sure how this topic got brought up.
The topic got brought up because it's looking more and more likely the physical comic industry is about to die.
A handful of publishers not using Comixology, doesn't change the fact that it practically holds a monopoly on the digital comic industry.
Having digital comics available to purchase from multiple avenues would be a lot better than one company dictating the prices.
Diamond's problem is warehouses not clearing. Everyone else's problem is that they rely on Diamond. I don't see anyone able to roll out a new distribution method overnight.
I just dont think it'd be worth their time to supply a limited market and then figure out how to fill the gap when physical comes back, rather than just delay and shut down.
I use the marvel app, and it doesn't bill my card to Amazon, it says marvel. But you can also buy single issues on the unlimited app. I don't think Unlimited is related to CMX in anyway.
Some places are part of city wide shutdowns have that luxury since it means they can't be shutdown by land owners, others...ohh boy.
I don't think so. Crunchyroll still offers some manga, don't they?
Marvel probably gets more of a cut if through the Marvel app (like how Apple gets more of a cut if you subscribe to a service through Apple instead of directly from HBO or whoever), but the actual app itself is made by CMX and uses their files and all that. Those accounts are linkable too, so the books you own in the Marvel app will show up in the normal CMX app. The Marvel app also doesn't show things like MAX books, whereas the CMX does.
Unlimited was made by Marvel, and that's their own internal business. I don't know anything about buying through that. Is that just a different place to allow you to buy things that you would read in the Marvel app, which is a CMX app? I can't imagine paying to read an issue in Unlimited and then having to read it in that app, since the file quality is so low and the app is a buggy mess.
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New threads will continue with all new banners!
We don't need comics in the op
Goddamn it I was buying digital floppies anyway, I need my Lucifer fix damnit!
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