I don't think that it would. Many people are collectors, and I don't think that anybody is going to be impressed by a rare #1 issue that is on somebody's phone or tablet in electronic form. Somebody has Superman #1 on their iPad? So what!
Collectors will still want physical comics.
If I were a collector, I would buy the physical comic and never read it or even open it. And then I'd do the actual reading on an iPad or something. So you get the best of both worlds.
You can buy individual issues via the regular Marvel Comics app or from ComiXology, including on the day that they are released in print.
The Marvel Unlimited program is different and provides an all-you-can-eat library of over 13,000 books that are 6 months old or older, with new books added every week. Granted, there are quite a few gaps, but 13,000 books will take you a little while to get through while they keep adding.
But that assumes that the only people who want to read it are people who can afford tens of thousands of dollars for a first edition that they have no intention of taking out of the bag. This is an entirely different audience.
I wasn't just thinking about super expensive or rare comics.
I don't collect comics anymore, but I did for a little bit when I was a kid. And even back then, I'd buy up two issues of every comic that I wanted. One would go into a bag, while the second one was for reading. Comics weren't that expensive back then. A few friends also collected comics back then, and they would do the same thing.
The Marvel Unlimited program is different and provides an all-you-can-eat library of over 13,000 books that are 6 months old or older, with new books added every week. Granted, there are quite a few gaps, but 13,000 books will take you a little while to get through while they keep adding.
I agree that it seems like a good deal.
Unfortunately for me, I was into a lot of war comics, and I don't think that Marvel was behind too many of them. Things like the Haunted Tank, Unknown Soldier, Sgt. Rock etc. I think that those are all DC.
As a big comic book reader, this is a non-starter for me and a very bad deal indeed.
Most of the new comics are complete shite, the only thing this is good for is the back catalogue, but $60 f*cking dollars a year for access to a catalogue of decades old material that should by rights be out of copyright by now is just ridiculous.
Additionally, Marvell is only one (smaller) company. If you wanted access to all the old comics of your youth (legally), you'd have to drop two or three times this amount at least. So hundreds of dollars a year for access to a bunch of old comics that again, by all rights, should be free at this point is just insane.
A better approach would be letting the old comics be free and using them as an enticement to get people to buy into a subscription service for the new stuff. Holding hostage the artistic work of a small group of folks who are all now dead and buried for decades is just unconscionable IMO.
yes, but if you're collecting comics, you can leave them in the bag, and read the digital version... instead of buying three, one to collect, one to sell, and one to read... (so instead you only need to buy 2 copies... (but them if everybody's readingthe digital copy, why would somebody need the paper collectable...)
more like marvel is fed up with the collectors market, and said " well, we can't make money off of the old comics, but we can make money off of the new collectables"
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I don't think that it would. Many people are collectors, and I don't think that anybody is going to be impressed by a rare #1 issue that is on somebody's phone or tablet in electronic form. Somebody has Superman #1 on their iPad? So what!
Collectors will still want physical comics.
If I were a collector, I would buy the physical comic and never read it or even open it. And then I'd do the actual reading on an iPad or something. So you get the best of both worlds.
You can buy individual issues via the regular Marvel Comics app or from ComiXology, including on the day that they are released in print.
The Marvel Unlimited program is different and provides an all-you-can-eat library of over 13,000 books that are 6 months old or older, with new books added every week. Granted, there are quite a few gaps, but 13,000 books will take you a little while to get through while they keep adding.
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But that assumes that the only people who want to read it are people who can afford tens of thousands of dollars for a first edition that they have no intention of taking out of the bag. This is an entirely different audience.
I wasn't just thinking about super expensive or rare comics.
I don't collect comics anymore, but I did for a little bit when I was a kid. And even back then, I'd buy up two issues of every comic that I wanted. One would go into a bag, while the second one was for reading. Comics weren't that expensive back then. A few friends also collected comics back then, and they would do the same thing.
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Originally Posted by diz_geek
The Marvel Unlimited program is different and provides an all-you-can-eat library of over 13,000 books that are 6 months old or older, with new books added every week. Granted, there are quite a few gaps, but 13,000 books will take you a little while to get through while they keep adding.
I agree that it seems like a good deal.
Unfortunately for me, I was into a lot of war comics, and I don't think that Marvel was behind too many of them. Things like the Haunted Tank, Unknown Soldier, Sgt. Rock etc. I think that those are all DC.
yes, but if you're collecting comics, you can leave them in the bag, and read the digital version... instead of buying three, one to collect, one to sell, and one to read... (so instead you only need to buy 2 copies... (but them if everybody's readingthe digital copy, why would somebody need the paper collectable...)
more like marvel is fed up with the collectors market, and said " well, we can't make money off of the old comics, but we can make money off of the new collectables"