The Sleepers Awake
by Frank Santoro
Monday, April 5, 2010
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We don’t do much “Comics Business” news here at Comics Comics, but I thought it was interesting to see this article run in BusinessWeek today. It’s about apps for the iPad that Marvel/Disney and other companies are offering for digital downloads of comics. I know the end of standard “floppy” comics is still a ways off, but when I read articles like this in the mainstream press I get antsy. If new comics day and comics shops start to go away because of downloads (recall how many record stores closed within a couple years of the iPod being released) we will all be affected somehow. Just sayin’. Not trying to sound alarmist or start some crazy comment thread section. My dad emailed me the BusinessWeek article and it made me think that if my dad is reading about it then something is really shifting.
