Should digital comics be more cheaper then regular comics.

- Considering how cheap digital storage and bandwidth are at scale, it should be a hell of a lot cheaper. No printing and no shipping cuts out a huge amount of the cost to produce comics as they are today.

Yes the change in cost should be equal to the cost of materials to make a single comic.

Them being regular price online is exactly why I don't buy them online. I'd rather have the physical copy if it's going to be regular price. I'd be more inclined to buy them if they were a dollar cheaper. So far the best online comic service to me, has been Marvel's unlimited digital comics subscription. Seriously, 50 bucks a year for unlimited fairly recent and old comics is a great deal.

@The_Tree:

50 bucks for real even for the new ones that come out

@WarMachineMarkV said:

- Considering how cheap digital storage and bandwidth are at scale, it should be a hell of a lot cheaper. No printing and no shipping cuts out a huge amount of the cost to produce comics as they are today.

QFT

yes...definitely...it's the reason that I don't buy full games from PSN or Xbox Live...why should the people downloading them have to pay the same price as the physical version when they aren't paying for the case and disc?

digital comics should be waaaaay cheaper. like one dollar

There should be a severe price cut, yes. They don't have the excuse to charge the same amount.

Production wise, I would say yes, Easier to make a digital comic than a hard cover

I think digital prices should be half the regular prices. Some companies (DC) are putting their back issues out for a dollar less online.

But if digital comics were cheaper than the hard copies they'd almost be forcing people to get the digital versions instead of printed versions.

yes, but you can get most of the old comics for about 0.99-1.99$ on comixology though.
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yes

@WarMachineMarkV said:

- Considering how cheap digital storage and bandwidth are at scale, it should be a hell of a lot cheaper. No printing and no shipping cuts out a huge amount of the cost to produce comics as they are today.

- Considering how cheap digital storage and bandwidth are at scale, it should be a hell of a lot cheaper. No printing and no shipping cuts out a huge amount of the cost to produce comics as they are today.

@Billy Batson said:

yes, but you can get most of the old comics for about 0.99-1.99$ on comixology though.
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Comixology?

yes, but you can get most of the old comics for about 0.99-1.99$ on comixology though.
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@spiderbat87 said:

@Billy Batson said:

yes, but you can get most of the old comics for about 0.99-1.99$ on comixology though.
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and a lot of #1 for free

and publishers have them too for free IIRC.
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@aztek_the_lost:

don't they link some #1's for free on comixology? I remember that it had Y and some others for free.
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Absolutely. There's no reason that they should be any more expensive than $2, unless of course it's a collection.

The only things I've been buying on comixology is Invincible trades, which go from $6 to $12 depending on how many issues are collected. And the first issue's free, so there's no way that's not fair.

Aren't all new 52 comics $1.99?

@aztek_the_lost:

true.
this thread should remind you to update your "Vertigo Comics Currently Available in the DC Digital Store" list, DC added some issues this week like 100 Bullets is up to 79 issues now IIRC :p
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@aztek_the_lost:

do you remember how fast do they add issues? and any idea why is it slow to fully collect series that were just finished a few years ago (100 Bullets and Unknown Soldier)?
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@aztek_the_lost:

edited the first question but it looks like you answered it, so it's pretty unlikely that would finish collecting those series?
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I think it should be a little cheaper since you are not getting the comic book in your hand

@ReVamp said:

Aren't all new 52 comics $1.99?

All the back issues are. The latest issue in the series you are reading is cover price. Exceptions being JL, Detective, and Action, which the newest issues are 3.99, and back issues are 2.99.