Fri, 24 May 2013 00:41:48 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320412#Comment_320412 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320412#Comment_320412 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:46:05 -0800 ScottBieser offered up some predictions for 2012.

Since comments are closed there and he suggests discussing his musings on Whitechapel, well, here we are.

What most interested me is his predictions that "at least three sources" will be offering indie comics creators the ability to load up their comics into a storefront app in the e-book market. He doesn't specify whether that means Apple's market or Android's or Kindle or B&N's Nook, but this is something I've been hoping for a couple of years now. Especially since I seem to have the damndest time getting into any of the major comics storefronts (iVerse stopped talking to us for reasons unknown, we got hung up in a contract disagreement with Graphic.ly, Project Longbox imploded and ComiXology just plain refuses to answer my queries.)

Warren projects that these developments will create a "curatorial nightmare" but I'm not sure what he means by that.

Edited to add: That quote should be " ... the sort of curational crisis ...", not what I put in above. My apologies, Warren's page was behind a back-button and I feared if I left this page I'd have to start over again, so I ran with my faulty memory of his words. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320414#Comment_320414 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320414#Comment_320414 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:21:18 -0800 joe.distort
ie: my wife cannot browse the iphone app store in any useful way for random cool things because theres 8 billion of them ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320431#Comment_320431 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320431#Comment_320431 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:03:11 -0800 texture
Sorry to drop a deeply pretentious and over-stressed/over-loaded couple of words, but 'curation' and 'channels' ... = ... C21 'labels' and 'publishers' and 'broadcasters.' The waters might be hard to navigate for a while, sure, but waves will emerge. I hope.

EDIT TO SAY:

"...the sort of curational crisis you see when you browse for Kindle books by genre."

Undeniably true, and thereby I clamp myself. Yes, the ebook market is chaos, as are the storefronts of POD entities. Again though... I hope this is a transitional phase. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320441#Comment_320441 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320441#Comment_320441 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:13:06 -0800 ScottBieser http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320443#Comment_320443 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320443#Comment_320443 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:17:29 -0800 Jay Kay I suspect that the screen size, though, will continue to be an issue, and may offer an advantage to indie creators/publishers that can more nimbly move to a suitably down-scaled format (about the size of mass-market manga, I think).

Yeah, especially since the thing that really loses effectiveness when on the tablet is the double-page spread, and, from my experience, that really isn't something that a lot of indie comics do. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320459#Comment_320459 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=320459#Comment_320459 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:04:01 -0800 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=338885#Comment_338885 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=338885#Comment_338885 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:10:06 -0700 lanshan75 Quoth the Spammer: "...come to our home to enjoy more happy."

Or don't. Because I just erased it with HOLY GRIDFIRE. -Si ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=338888#Comment_338888 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10430&Focus=338888#Comment_338888 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:48:14 -0700 Mercer Finn
In a perfect world I would like the massive phone book sized b&w reprints of 'Essential' Marvel comics on my Kindle, but it doesn't look like that's available at the moment... ]]>