Longbox Digital Comics was developed as a comic book launch platform (an iTunes for digital comics) rumored to offer issues at .99 each for download to Mac, PC, and Linux. You can read the story here at comicbookresources.com. Individual publishers are free to price their own products, but the smart ones will keep it sensible. We talked about uclick.com doing something similar. In their case, they’re offering their own list of digital comic books sized for iPhone, also with a rumored starting price of .99 per issue.
So far Longbox has two publishers on board: Top Cow and Boom! Studios.
Comic books seem like a perfect fit for the transition to digital reading. It’s just a matter of time before the right platform is developed. Maybe this is it, yah?
