All Comic Books Completely Digital???

Originally posted by Doctor-Alvis
Information is so spread out these days that I'm inclined to believe to destroy any percentage of data, permanently, you'd have to kill just as many people. And the kind of thing that could do that without killing people would probably scare me just as much.

And I don't mean just that people can access it anywhere, there are so many back ups and bits and pieces sitting on computers and flash drives.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
A sever farm sending out digital comic books puts out a lot less heat than trucks traveling around the country delivering them and presses printing them.

It's not like artists will start burning their line art if this policy is put in place. And as I said, eliminating physical comic books entirely is unlikely even if that is the proposal. The cost should stay about the same, less demand + less supply = similar price.

Unfortunately that model is getting less sustainable all the time. The profit margin for digital publishing is much better since there is no cost to produce the physical copies or ship them. The cost is lower for the consumers for the same reason, which results in more purchases.

Would the end of physical comics be tragic? Yes, probably. But I don't believe it's a likely outcome of an attempt to move the industry toward a digital model.

I agree with most of what you say, digital means better and easier distribution, but it doesn't make up for the loss of the comic book as an object. Right now storing comic book copies is the best way to keep up with new technologies, we just need to look at how many old films were lost because technologie was never meant and couldn't remain eternal and because of how much it costed down the line. Distribution would be cool, payment is effy though, if you need a credit card it would be finance/bank based and that's much less sustainable than Internet itself.