The big five publishing houses are very bullish about the future of comic books and manga in the retail setting. They have been securing long-term agreements to get as many copies available to bookstores in Canada, US and UK markets.IDW Publishing has just signed a multi-year book sales and distribution agreement with Penguin Random House Publisher Services for the trade … [Read more...] about Major publishers are bullish about graphic novels and manga
Digital Comic News
Comic Book Sales Are Thriving in 2016
The comic book industry has its share of ups and downs over the past 60 years. Right now, comic sales are booming thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC. 10.2 million comic books were sold to North American shops in August. That means stores and retailers ordered over $57-million worth of comics and graphic novels. The last time there was such ravenous demand for comics … [Read more...] about Comic Book Sales Are Thriving in 2016
Comics Empower is an online comic book store for the blind
There are many companies that offer a selection of digital audio comics, but navigating them when you are blind is quite challenging. This has prompted Guy Hasson to develop the Comics Empower website. It was designed to put blind and visually impaired customers first by providing original and adapted audio comics produced in-house, plus audio comics produced by other companies … [Read more...] about Comics Empower is an online comic book store for the blind
Patreon and Line Want to Make Webcomics more lucractive
Line Webtoon is the most popular webcomic platform in the world and they have just teamed up with Patreon to make the process more lucrative for creators. A Patreon button has has integrated directly into comics on the “Discover” portion of the LINE Webtoon site.Webtoons gets around 35 million readers a month and translations reach millions more via apps such as Manga … [Read more...] about Patreon and Line Want to Make Webcomics more lucractive
You can now share e-books with Google Family Library
Google has just unveiled Family Library which allows you to share purchased e-books with up to six family members. This comes at a time when Android enjoys a healthy 65% market share, making it the worlds most popular mobile operating system.You will be able to share digital comics, e-books, graphic novels, magazines and newspapers with the new Family Library program. The … [Read more...] about You can now share e-books with Google Family Library
Google Play Books Unveils Bubble Zoom
Google Play Books has just released a new feature to make digital comic reading more viable, it's called Bubble Zoom. It allows you to isolate specific frames that contain bubble text within a comic, without compromising the full-page experience.Google got into selling single issue and graphic novels directly in 2014 when it signed a deal with DC. It eventually ironed out … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Unveils Bubble Zoom
Marvel Unlimited is Offering a One Month Subscription for $1
Marvel Unlimited is a Netflix style digital distribution platform for comics. Basically, it allows you to subscribe for a monthly subscription and get access to over 17,000 backlist titles. Today, Marvel announced that you can sign up for a one month subscription for only $1.00.The discounted first month of Unlimited is only valid for the next four days and then will … [Read more...] about Marvel Unlimited is Offering a One Month Subscription for $1
Dark Horse is releasing Season 11 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dark Horse Comics will be releasing season 11 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer this November. The series is still going strong despite the fact that it new television episodes have not been made in over 13 years.A lot will have changed for Buffy and her friends by the time Season 11 kicks off. They've moved to San Francisco in the aftermath of Sunnydale being swallowed up by a … [Read more...] about Dark Horse is releasing Season 11 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Digital Comics Made a Paltry $90 Million in 2015
The comic book industry made over a billion dollars last year and print sales generated $900 million dollars. Sadly, digital did not have a good year and the format only accounted for $90 million in sales.Digital sales declined around 10% in 2015, back to 2013 levels. This was the only area of decline among all the segments of the entire comic book market.I think it's … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Made a Paltry $90 Million in 2015
1.45 Million People Attended Free Comic Book Day
Comic Book Day is an annual event that takes place in the first week of May. This year over 1.45 million people visited their local comic book shop and picked up at least one issue from Marvel, DC and a number of independent publishers.Diamond Comic Distributors has proclaimed that over six million comics were ordered from 2,340 local shops, which is a 7% increase from … [Read more...] about 1.45 Million People Attended Free Comic Book Day
Digital Comics are not Cannibalizing Print
When e-books first started getting popular in 2009, the traditional book selling industry started to experience declines. Over the course of the next few years bookstores started to go out of business and many people thought print would die completely in the near future. Comics on the other hand have been immune to the disruption of digital.A new study by CNBC tracked the … [Read more...] about Digital Comics are not Cannibalizing Print
Comixology Launches Unlimited Comic Book Service
Comixology has just launched a new digital comic subscription service. You can pay $5.99 per month for access to a selection of comics and graphic novels.There are a multitude of publishers that are taking part in this new initiative, such as Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Kodansha Comics, Oni Press, Valiant … [Read more...] about Comixology Launches Unlimited Comic Book Service
Here are all the Free Comics for Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May the 7th and there are over 50 different comics that will be available at your local shop. The stores actually have to pay for the comics and extra staff, so in most cases you can only pickup a few issues. This year there are some excellent freebies such as the first issue of the new Archie series and Marvels kickoff of the Civil War 2. You … [Read more...] about Here are all the Free Comics for Comic Book Day