{"id":2392,"date":"2009-06-26T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2009-06-26T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T14:07:42","slug":"itunes-for-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"iTunes for Comic Books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Longbox Digital Comics<\/strong> was developed as a comic book launch platform (an iTunes for digital comics) rumored to offer issues at <strong>.99<\/strong> each\u00c2\u00a0for download to Mac, PC, and Linux.\u00c2\u00a0You can read the story <a title=\"Longbox Comics Announcement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=21693\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at <strong>comicbookresources.com<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0Individual publishers are free to price their own products, but the smart ones will keep it sensible. We talked about\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"uclick.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=899\" target=\"_self\"><strong>uclick.com<\/strong> <\/a>doing something similar.\u00c2\u00a0In their case, they&#8217;re offering their own list of\u00c2\u00a0digital comic books sized for iPhone, also with a rumored starting price\u00c2\u00a0of <strong>.99<\/strong> per issue.<\/p>\n<p>So far Longbox has two publishers on board: <strong>Top Cow<\/strong> and <strong>Boom! Studios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Comic books seem like a perfect fit for the transition to digital reading. It&#8217;s just a matter of time before the right platform is developed. Maybe this is it,\u00c2\u00a0<em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longbox Digital Comics was developed as a comic book launch platform (an iTunes for digital comics) rumored to offer issues at .99 each\u00c2\u00a0for download to Mac, PC, and Linux.\u00c2\u00a0You can read the story here\u00c2\u00a0at comicbookresources.com.\u00c2\u00a0Individual publishers are free to price their own products, but the smart ones will keep it sensible. We talked about\u00c2\u00a0uclick.com doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2392\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}