If they don’t, they will quit opening the app and end their subscription. They mostly seem to emphasize getting you to buy or look at other stuff, whereas the services should really worry about whether or not readers are actually reading. No app I’ve ever seen does a good job of helping you keep track of what you want to read and knocking those things off the list when you’re done.

One major problem I have: even when I buy digital comics, I often forget I have them. The user experience of these services needs to evolve. Yes, you can sell your comics through Comixology, but you’re still competing with those first run comics every month,” Plosky said. “A venture like us is really just found money on content they’ve already created.” “Realistically, there’s not an after market for comics. It also announced a new tier: $3.99 for 10 digital comics, each month, that’s the same price as one online issue of IDW’s Transformers: Till All Are One on Comixology.Ĭomic Blitz’s pitches publishers that it gives them a way to monetize their back catalog and perhaps attract new fans. The company has lowered its price on its completely unlimited package from $9.99 per month to $7.99, for a limited time. As long as a publisher remains in the Comic Blitz system, every book they add stays in it for good, so that readers never feel like they are only getting part of a storyline or teased into buying the rest of the books, Jordan Plosky, its CEO, explained in a phone call with the Observer. IDW COO Greg Goldstein said in a release, “ComicBlitz’s business model is a smart, easy way to discover your new favorite comic and we hope that their subscribers will enjoy what we have to offer.”Ĭomics Blitz co-founders Jordan Plosky and Greg Weiss.Īlong with the news, the service updated its pricing structure. The publisher puts out books featuring some globally recognized characters, such as the Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Red Sonja. Today, one binge-reading venture, a startup out of Los Angeles called Comic Blitz, announced that IDW Publishing had added many of its titles to its inventory.

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