Top Shelf signs with iVerse
The digital teaming up is coming fast and furious as Top Shelf has signed with iVerse for digital distro. The idea of reading Nate Powell, James Kochalka, and Renee French on a tablet sounds very tasty indeed.
Diamond launches digital comics in September
After a period of beta testing, Diamond is ready to roll out their digital comics sales this September. As there is not much else happening that month, maybe this will perk things up.
More seriously, about 30 publishers are participating in the venture, which is run through iVerse and involves participating retailers generating codes for sale. The program will begin more advanced beta testing in stores in August.
Interested retailers can sign up here.
BONE and RASL get their own apps on comiXology
Jeff Smith has joined the stand-alone digital store ranks with new apps for BONE and RASL via comiXology. To celebrate, there's a sale and at 4 pm a chat on Reddit with Smith.
As kids books tend to do very well on tablets and phones, we'd expect Bone to conquer this medium as well as it has every other place it's appeared.
Online Burn Notice comic gets 100K views
The USA Network and DC Comics recently launched a webcomic to tie in with the Season 5 premiere of Burn Notice. And readers seem to have liked it.
Cable network USA and DC Comics debuted Chapter 1 of its "Burn Notice" interactive graphic novel, "A New Day," alongside the show's Season 5 premiere on Thursday. To date, "A New Day" has scored more than 100,000 page views, according to the network.
Digital comics: What platforms are selling the best?
While we can't answer that question, one creator, Michael Jasper has been making his percentage of sales available for IN MAPS AND LEGENDS, a fantasy comic with touches of steampunk and SF. It got its start as a Zuda competition winner but has since returned to the creators and they've been selling it digitally everywhere. Since IN MAPS AND LEGENDS is available on every platform, and is in a universally popular genre it's an interesting chart:
Sony ends comics sales on PSP
One of the earliest outlets for digital comics -- Sony's PSP gaming system -- will no longer be selling them, according to an announcement on the Sony blog:
Disney launches Disney Comics app for iOS
Guess who's got a comics app?
Disney has been rolling out a whole line of kids digital books with its DigiBooks for a while, and a few selected comics on iPhone, but now they have their own app selling comics from the range of their 80 years history -- from Donald Duck to High School Musical. According to the pr, Disney comics have over 1 billion readers worldwide.
Retailers wake up and smell DC’s day and date
A story from the Boston Globe captures the mood of comics retailers who are sitting on the porch sipping an iced tea while the digital tornado comes right for them. Some sip their cool drink knowing that no matter what happens, they had a good run:
Royal Historian of OZ finale only available in digital form
Only a few days ago, SLG announced they would be selling digital comics via iVerse, and, in a sign of the continuing difficult of selling small comics periodicals, they have announced that the final issue of ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch will only be available as a pdf download. Although low orders scuttled the final print issue, it will be available in the collected edition, which is due in September.
Slave Labor joins iVerse
Meanwhile Slave Labor, the long-running quirky comics publisher which has survived against all odds for over 20 years, has just teamed with iVerse to offer digital comics. We'll vouch for MIDNIGHT SUN by Ben Towle, one of those Antarctic comics we're so fond of, and the other initial offerings are sounds, as well, including the popular REX LIBRIS.
ComiXology for Android downloaded more than 1 million times
Comixology's iOS app hit one million downloads last year, and now their Android app has done the same, we're told. PR below:
Graphicly: Now the YouTube of comics
Graphicly, the digital comics distributor, announced a big redesign and some new features for its browser-based comics yesterday -- including the ability to embed comics anywhere, a YouTube-like interface that Micah Baldwin discussed with Kiel Phegley:
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