CBR: Pipeline - Mar 9, 2010

[CBR News]

In the wake of last weekend's Amazon graphic novel glitch, Augie ponders the pricing scale for digital comics, wondering where exactly is the inflection point? Also, more great Jason comics and a podcast recommendation.


Full article here.

[uthor]

$0.60 a song? What a rip off. The cheapest eMusic plan is $12/month for 24 credits. Songs are 1 credit each, but most albums over 12 tracks long are discounted down to 12 credits. That's $0.50/song at most.

[dancj]

I half agree. $0.60 isn't too bad for one song as long as it's cheaper when you buy a whole album.

Personally I'd only consider paying to download an album when the price comes down to about £2 (which is about $3 US).

For comics I'd probably want to be at a similar price for an entire 150 page graphic novel - if (and it's a big "if") I ever start reading comics digitally.

[De Carabas]

Augie, thank you for the Priest interview links! Going there now, but had to say thanks first.

EM

[pmpknface]

Augie, I'd have tried to help you a bit with the auctions if I'd have known!

Also, you can order supplies for FREE from the USPS. Of course, they'll ship it to you too.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Hey Jamie -- yeah, thought of that too late. I did once upon a time have a package of envelopes delivered to me at home when I was shipping out a bunch of stuff. Worked wonders. Should have done that again. Oh, well. I learned lots of lessons. The hard way.

Eric -- No problem. Enjoy. It's lots of fun, and it has me reading "Black Panther" Volume 1 TPB right now. Of course, part of that is for this coming week's column, where I needed something from it. You'll see...

-Augie