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What's your favorite comic book and what's the last one you've read?
kahlid74:
For me it's space more than anything. I pay $3.00 for a brand new comic on release day and unless it's super special or a complete set, it's value literally plummets over time to cents. So now I have a box of my favorite comics that is worth $15 bucks total and takes up the same space as my SAN that holds 15 TB of comics/movies/music. Digitally I can read it anywhere, even on my phone albeit a pain in the ass.
Now comes the useability. When the wife sees me with a laptop or a tablet reading a comic it doesn't anger her nearly as much as a physical copy. Don't ask me why, but digitally she's okay with it. It's almost like she doesn't have a grip on it costing something where as physically she can attribute a good to a cost.
So I save space, I save money, I save wife wrath/angst and I get to read anything I want. All I want is to pay for digital comics on a comparable rate to what it should cost. Digital comics shouldn't toe along the cost of printing physical. If someone wants physical then you have to pay for it and if less people want physical then you should have to pay more as the demand goes down but the cost of maintaining the printing presses stays fixed/decreases slightly. I'm not against physical but if I only want digital I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's printing press.
Now the CD argument is different. Digitally downloaded songs have less quality and fidelity. I would however argue that you can't hear a significant difference between MP3 and CD on a regular sound system. You need a high quality sound system to really hear a difference in fidelity.
Donkbaca:
^^^ Agree with everything this man says
But price isn't just based on cost, its based on what the market will bear, all companies must find the sweet spot to maximize profits, they figure people pay three bucks a comic now, so 3 bucks is how they have pegged their digital copies. From a cost perspective, assuming the same sales, prices would be much less expensive to maintain the same margins because the marginal cost of printing a digital comic is basically zero.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: Vigo on April 13, 2012, 05:23:20 pm ---Although I haven't collected comics in years, I have pride over my small collection. I pull them out from time to time, read them, look up the values, yes-smell them. Even if I don't give a crap about the comic, like some valuable old richie rich comics I have. About the dumbest comic imaginable, but I still wouldn't part with them without feeling bad. I plan on parting my original X-men comics to my kid someday as a friggin' heirloom. You just can't have pride over digital comics, and no amount a special edition flash drives or dlc is gonna change that. With that said, I do begrudgingly read comics on my tablet. :(
I will not buy digital music....I still get CD's. yeah, I have to shop online for them most the time, but I have an extremely hard time buying something without a tangible medium.
I'm with mike. I should have been born in the 60's or something. I get more excited about finding a good vinyl record for my collection than take any real interest in any apps or facebook or texting.
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:cheers: Hell yeah on the CD's, I do the same thing. Same exact thing, I have the same phobia of buying access to something. My friend just recently had to borrow a ton of my CD's cause his Ipod with ALL this music crapped out. Something was wrong with itunes, so he couldnt get all the stuff back.
Its funny that you mention that Vigo, I was thinking of starting a vinly collection. I was at the swap meet this weekend (got sunburned to hell) and was talking to an old metal dude, and he had some awesome records.
Whats the big deal about space regarding the comics?! I have a couple long boxes and they dont take up that much space, granted I have a house, but doesnt mostly everyone here? 90 percent of you guys are in the midwest and land out there is cheap. ;) The wife getting mad at you reading an actual comic book is a little weird to me, no offense.
I dunno, I like having collections of things. Like Vigo stated, when I pay money, I like to have something in return that someone cant take away. Unless I decide to sell it of course. :lol
Howard_Casto:
Well for me, I like digital comics for the same reason I like physical cds... durability.
I don't like digital music downloads because it's already cruddily compressed and it's easy for the file to become corrupted over time where as a cd will last a long time assuming I don't scratch it. Heck usually what I do is buy a cd, immediately rip it on my computer and shelf it for archival purposes. It isn't like I have any cd players anymore. ;)
I agree that the difference is negligable btw... but it's the principal of the thing. Let's say you were in a fruniture store and there were two drawers for the same price but one had a scratch on it. Why the heck would you buy the scratched one? If digital music cost significantly less than physical music (lets say 50 cents a track) then I wouldn't feel ripped-off but as-is it's kind of a scam imho.
Comics are the other way around. Your physical book can be damaged just by looking through it (the spine breaks). In order to keep it looking nice you have to store it in a safe place, make sure your hands are dry and clean when you read it, ect... The digital copy is indestructable compared to the real comic. Now I could by a physical comic and "rip" it via a scanner, but scanning things is cumbersome and takes a long time and the comic's spine would be virtually destroyed by the time I was done. I agree that digital comics need to lower in price though, I think a dollar a book would be good.
Here's the solution and this is a free idea to DC, Marvel or anybody that listens. You know how blu-ray discs contain a code for a free digital copy of the film? Do the same thing with comics! Then I could buy a comic, open it to the code page, and shelf it.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote ---Here's the solution and this is a free idea to DC, Marvel or anybody that listens. You know how blu-ray discs contain a code for a free digital copy of the film? Do the same thing with comics! Then I could buy a comic, open it to the code page, and shelf it.
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Damn. Thats a great idea. :applaud:
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