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Posted by Ben in Jump Leads Stuff on February 8th 2010 @ 12:19pm GMT
This is something I've been considering for a while now, but I thought I'd ask you the question properly: Would you be interested if we were to start selling complete issues of the comic as eBooks, and if so what pricepoint would you be willing to pay? Furthermore, would you have any interest in PDFs of the scripts the comic is based upon?
To clarify: this wouldn't be a move to a pay model - the comic would still be available to read for free every week here on the website, and once the issue is finished a DRM-free eBook of the comic would be made available for purchase, featuring the story and artwork as it appeared on the website only at a much higher resolution. They'd also contain additional features such as character art and so on, much like the printed Volume One we put out last year.
To clarify: this wouldn't be a move to a pay model - the comic would still be available to read for free every week here on the website, and once the issue is finished a DRM-free eBook of the comic would be made available for purchase, featuring the story and artwork as it appeared on the website only at a much higher resolution. They'd also contain additional features such as character art and so on, much like the printed Volume One we put out last year.
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Posted by Porsupah on February 12th 2010 @ 8:43pm GMT
I'd certainly be up for DRM-free PDFs, as I seldom buy paper any more - I've moved around way too many times to enjoy lugging more boxes around than absolutely necessary, let alone having to leave most of it in storage for months or years. Digitally? Not a problem.Also, you might consider hooking up with one of the outfits publishing comics on the iPhone, such as Robot Comics, iVerse Media, and Comixology. You might just be able to hand them the pages and let them reformat them - in some cases, that's accomplished by simply taking appropriately dimensioned rectangles, masked off accordingly, so you just swipe between pages; in others, the view pans and rescales - within reason - to make for more fluid, flexible transitions.
For what it's worth, I'd be especially pleased if payment options included something that goes nowhere near PayPal.
On that note, have you heard of an upcoming micropayments handler named Flattr? Only in testing at the moment, but it has quite a promising ring to it (and no, I've no connection to them, not even testing) - seems the donator makes a payment up front, on a recurring basis, and can then toss in some money, Digg-style, clicking on an icon on the creator's site, to add them to the people that their money will be shared out between. Seems like a possibly attractive method, for donators, as there'd be no danger of inadvertently winding up giving way more than you'd thought, potentially boosting popularity of the service, making for *useful* tipjars at last.
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Haven't thought about price-point though.