The idea that print comics are somehow more independent than their digital cousins-or a scrappy underdog fighting the good fight against evil corporate profiteers-is frankly ridiculous.
Is the concern is a distribution monopoly? If so, the direct market is in no position to criticize: over the last 15 years, Diamond Comics Distributors has consumed almost all independent print distribution in comics, and dictates practices and policy to retailers and publishers alike. >The comics industry lingers in a frozen adolescence, clinging to a shrinking target audience like a sea captain railing at the storm-when the real problem is the rotting wood of his own hull.īut what about comics retailers? A few years ago, ComiXology was being heralded as the death knell of comics shops, and that obviously hasn't happened-digital distribution isn't ripping customers away from struggling comics shops so much as attracting new readers to the medium, many of whom later find their way to brick-and-mortar stores. The programs Business Insider points out in their sky-is-falling predictions already existed Amazon had been publishing comics on the Kindle for years, and developing original comics properties for months before acquiring ComiXology. You'll deal with the same people, through the same process, in much the same way. If you're a creator or publisher, ComiXology CEO David Steinberger confirmed that your contract and royalties won't change, at least not in the foreseeable future.
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