It'll be interesting to see what happens in the US, where so many comics are seen as collectible and not disposable. We haven't seen the big switch to digital, but I assume it's more lack of a good digital option as opposed to interest.
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I wrote a column on the state of Japan's domestic manga market, plus its implications on U.S. comics retailers, as part of Manga Week coverage on @icv2.com.
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There needs to be a not-for-profit digital industry alliance of Western publishers.
I get it through my library and they have all Marvel and DC available digitally on the same day they are available in trade.
1. It established the market size for full price with essentially the best possible product on the market.
2. It showed how much a tech giant could get away with when thoroughly destroying a service and salting the earth.
So yeah, that’s a dead end.