Someone gets it right!

[andrewducker]

2000AD are selling some of their trade paperbacks as digital editions. And they are doing it _right_.

1) The price is about a third of the cost of the physical version.
2) It's in utterly DRM-free formats, both cbz and pdf.

Now, will someone please let the book industry know? I refused to pay for DRMed music, and I'm sure as hell not changing that for books.

via Andrew Hickey.

Comments

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

I really need to buy this and prove that doing this is a financially sound idea.

Well that and I want the stories.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Shame about the formats. I'd love to buy some but neither format will render well on a kindle.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

What's your view on DRM on PC games?


As regards boycotting, I differentiate between DRM schemes like Steam that actually provide the paying customer with some advantages (automatic updates and patches, easy digital download experience, can install on any machine and link to your account etc) and ones that just seem designed to piss off the customer. This is why I didn't buy Mass Effect or the first couple of Assassin's Creed games.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is exciting. I'd love a huge, easily manageable back catalogue for 2000AD. When iPads (and analogues) are as common as iPhones (and analogues) then this will really take off. Price, availability and storage stopped me from reading comics at just the wrong age but digital subscriptions could bring me back to the fold.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

nowhere near enough of them.

I hope they expand their catalogue, and soon. I'd spend a lot of money there

[ajr.livejournal.com]

It's a good idea, but either I'm being really thick or there isn't a way to search the site to see what all the digitally available volumes are. Searching for individual titles and checking to see if there's a digital copy or not gets boring fast.