Image Comics was an early adopter of offering most of their comics without any digital rights management. Since 2013 they allowed users to shop directly on their website and download comics to their computer and easily load them on their smartphone, tablet or e-reader. A few weeks ago the comics publisher decided to no longer offer DRM-Free comics on their website and gave … [Read more...] about Image Comics is no longer offering DRM-Free Editions
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Google Purchases Image Recognition Expert Jetpac
Jetpac is best known as the iOS app that is able to recommend restaurants, bars, and attractions based on their analyses of Instagram photographs by the thousands. Google has announced that they were able to acquire Jetpac (for a indeterminate amount of money), meaning that iOS users will lose the company's app come September 15, 2014. Speculation suggests of course that Google … [Read more...] about Google Purchases Image Recognition Expert Jetpac
Best New Digital Comics for January 24, 2014
Here's what's looking good at the (digital) comics shop this week: All-New X-Men #22.NOW: Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Stuart Immonen, this issue kicks off a six-issue crossover that brings the Guardians of the Galaxy into the world of the X-Men. The continuity folds over in a weird sort of way when a young Jean Grey, who has traveled through time to … [Read more...] about Best New Digital Comics for January 24, 2014
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014
Readers prefer the uncensored version of Miracleman, Attack on Titan makes the Kindle chart, and where's that second issue of Injustice: Year Two? Here's my look at this week's digital comics best-sellers, as of Sunday evening. ComiXology 1. All-New X-Men #21 2. Superior Spider-Man #25 3. Uncanny X-Men, vol. 3 #16 4. Amazing X-Men #3 5. Justice League of America … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014
Best Digital Comics for January 9 2014
Here's a look at some of the more interesting titles that are out this week in digital format. Detective Comics #27: DC celebrates the 75th anniversary of Batman (who first appeared in the original Detective Comics #27) with seven stories about the Caped Crusader, including Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch's retelling of the first Batman story, "The Case of the Chemical … [Read more...] about Best Digital Comics for January 9 2014
Image Comics Slashes Prices—Till Saturday Night
Image Comics is having a half-price sale on all the comics in its digital store right now, and that's a great opportunity to fill up your e-reader, because Image is the publisher behind some of the most talked-about comics of the year. Even better, Image sells its comics as direct downloads, which means you own the file—you don't have to depend on a third-party provider such as … [Read more...] about Image Comics Slashes Prices—Till Saturday Night
November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit
Diamond Comics Distributors is the exclusive distributor of print comics to specialty comics shops, so their monthly numbers give a pretty good picture of the print comics market. That market is dominated by Marvel and DC, but that dominance slipped a bit this month as both publishers had less than a 30% market share (in terms of dollars). This isn't the first time that has … [Read more...] about November Comics Sales: The Big Two Slip a Bit
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for December 8, 2013
It's time for our weekly look at the top-selling digital comics of the week. There are a few surprises this week and some predictable results as well. ComiXology 1. Amazing X-Men #2 2. Superior Spider-Man #23 3. Inhumanity #1 4. Earth 2 #18 5. Batman/Superman #6 6. The Walking Dead #117 7. Amazing Spider-Man #700.1 8. Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 3 #9 9. Young … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for December 8, 2013
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for December 1, 2013
Image Comics elbows DC aside in this week's comiXology chart, with a bit of help from a half-price sale, but Kindle readers are bullish on DC's new 52 graphic novels. comiXology 1. The Walking Dead #117 2. Saga #16 3. Infinity #6 4. All New X-Men #19 5. Hawkeye #14 6. New Avengers, vol. 3 #12 7. Superior Spider-Man #22 8. Uncanny Avengers #14 9. Black Science … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for December 1, 2013
Digital Comics Bargains for Black Friday
Stay away from the mall this Black Friday and scoop up some digital deals for yourself—or your friends. Dark Horse has an amazing deal on Star Wars comics: A megabundle of over 150 single issues for $100. The bundle includes Brian Wood's Star Wars (set in the world of the original movie), the kid-friendly Clone Wars, all three arcs of The Crimson Empire, and all sorts of … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Bargains for Black Friday
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for September 29, 2013
This is a very interesting week for digital comics best-sellers, for two reasons: It's the first week without a new issue of the perennial best-seller Injustice: Gods Among Us, which has dominated the charts since we started compiling these lists, and three platforms (comiXology, Kindle, and Nook) had a 99-cent sale on Fables with varying effects on their lists. Let's take a … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for September 29, 2013
ComiXology Passes 200 Million Downloads
Crains New York broke the news this week, in a profile of comiXology and its CEO David Steinberger, that the company has now passed the 200 million download mark. It was just about a year ago that they were at 100 million downloads, so that means they have downloaded 100 million comics in the past year or, if you do a bit of rounding, roughly 2 million comics per week. Now, … [Read more...] about ComiXology Passes 200 Million Downloads
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for September 22, 2013
One of these things is not like the other: Three of this week's best-seller lists had at least one title that seemed a little out of place. The other one, Nook, is so weirdly consistent from week to week that it's almost an outlier itself. ComiXology 1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #36 2. Infinity #3 3. Uncanny X-Men, vol. 3, #12 4. New Avengers, vol. 3 #10 5. Superior … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Best-Sellers for September 22, 2013
Apple Boots Saga #12 and 1,500 French Comics from App Store
Writer Brian K. Vaughan released a statement today saying that the 12th issue of his science fiction series Saga, illustrated by Fiona Staples, will not be available via comics iOS apps such as comiXology because of "two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex" that did not make it past Apple's content reviewers. The comic will be available digitally from the comiXology and Image … [Read more...] about Apple Boots Saga #12 and 1,500 French Comics from App Store