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Go to Amazon, instead, look up “Invincible volume 1”, and scroll down by a screen’s height or so.
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This is where you’ll discover that while viewing the first trade, Comixology is showing you, left to right, the first three Compendium books plus the same trade you’re already looking at. This is not useful if you’re on a phone or iPad, since you can’t hover there. When you hover your pointer over the covers, a pop up will tell you a little more. You might assume that they’re volumes 2 – 5 of the trade series, because that would make the most sense. Those covers are so small that you can’t read the volume numbers on them. If you’re new to Invincible, there’s no way to know. It’s a virtual trade paperback that collects the first four issues of the series.Ĭheck out the box at the bottom of the page that shows you more Invincible stuff that you might want to buy. Open up to the page for the first collected edition of “Invincible”. We’ll start with a Comixology web site interface design that doesn’t work as expected. You’ll see what I mean, because I have some good examples we can look at here. That trickles down to how Comixology does business, but that’s their position in the industry. Some of it is annoyance at the way the comics industry chooses to work and protect one income stream while stifling the other. Some of this is frustration with design choices that nobody questions. They have great digital comic reading apps that are, indeed, different from the paper experience (with Guided View). They have a pull list style of subscribing to comics, and even have an overall subscription service which, while not perfect, is still filled with a lot of amazing comics. They bring us every North American publisher. Comixology is at their mercy for those larger issues.Ĭomixology brought us digital comics on this large scale. It’s their raw material that’s at the center of all of this, after all, and so they dictate the terms. The biggest problems are with the publishers and how they want to handle pricing and format of comics distribution. But the bigger issue it out of their hands. There is a UI change that they could make and a new feature I’ll propose here that they could add. These are all not strictly Comixology’s problem. It’s far less likely to happen, but maybe it spurs on some useful discussion… Some are more pie in the sky suggestions for rethinking digital comics from the ground up, and changing the way everything works. Some are very nitty gritty user interface things. Certainly, we’ve learned enough from those experiences to inform bigger changes in the future. Digital Comics in their current format have been around for more than a decade now. It’s blinded the publishers to opportunities and to new ideas.
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We don’t buy digital comics that tell full stories or full series or complete runs by specific creators - unless they happen to be broken down in the same way that the print editions are. We still buy comics as individual issues or as trades that collect those issues as singular books. Why are we still stuck with the mirror image of a comic shop, just with a bigger back issue bin? It’s limiting and it prevents all the potential and possibilities that a limitless digital store could bring to us. The way you buy comics, the way you find comics, the way you learn about comics, the way you collect and store comics. They take the final digital package created for the trade paperback and just export that to the digital comics format, as well.īut shouldn’t the digital comic be a different package? Do the same lessons of shelving at stores make sense for the virtual shelves of a digital bookshelf?ĭigital Comics Distribution/Retail should be a different experience from print retail. That includes formatting as well as pricing.Ĭombine that with a publisher workflow (dare I say “pipeline”?) that emphasizes efficiency over logic. They’re afraid to do anything differently that might cut into DM sales, no matter how much it harms digital comics or the potential to find new audiences for comics.
The root of the problem, as always, is that Digital Comics are still made with protectionism towards the Direct Market foremost in the publishers’ minds.
COMIC COLLECTOR SEARCH MISSING ISSUES UPDATE
Until that day comes, the Comixology interface needs an update that I think could help comic readers, especially newer ones. The entire system needs a complete rethinking: Publishers need to reconsider how they sell comics digitally. We’re doing collected editions of comics wrong in the digital world.
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