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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 8, 2014 5:47:48 GMT -5
I do think Marvel's digital copy added to the $3.99 books is a good deal though. I'm not happy about the price tag at $3.99 but at least their throwing you something and it's pretty sweet when they add one of those Infinite comics in there. I also think it was brilliant when they put a digital copy of the first trade of the series you were reading in there.
Last year was great. My wife and I were going on vacation and I went through my $3.99 Marvel books and added like 15-25 of them to my Comixology and read them all on vacation. Same thing when I had my gall bladder removed in April.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 8, 2014 5:58:10 GMT -5
I have never once used one of those download codes. Don't even have a Comixology account.
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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 8, 2014 6:11:32 GMT -5
I love it. I take my tablet to work and read comics on my lunch break some days as well.
You should Google around. I know there is a decent aftermarket for those codes and the going rate is $1.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 8, 2014 8:01:23 GMT -5
$4.99 is probably my line in the sand for comics. It's just pathetic grabbing a couple of books at the shop and having to fork over $20 for it. The only thing that really keeps me reading currently is using DCBS and the discounts I get for that monthly. Otherwise I'd probably be reading 2 or 3 books a month or none at all. It's a sliding scale for me. $1 is the most I'm willing to pay to pick up a book on a whim. $2 is the most I'm willing to pay to keep up with a character, creator, or run just because I'm enjoying it. $6 is the most I'm willing to pay for a book or run that's having a serious impact on me. As a result, my pull list is currently down to three titles, and I suspect I'll be removing one of them within the month. Meanwhile, when comics were still $2, I was buying more than half of DC's output, and when they were still $1, I bought absolutely everything that looked even remotely interesting to me. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 8, 2014 9:42:22 GMT -5
The problem for me, for instance when I was at Hastings looking for a video game to rent I pursued the comic section. And despite Infinity, Thanos Rising and some other book with Thanos on it, $5 is just too much for a 32 page book no matter how much I like the character or writer. I can wait. It'll get cheaper. Just like a movie theater ticket today. I'll wait for netflix or redbox. Whether my bank account is doing good or not, there's only so much I am willing to pay out for my own entertainment. Especially when there's many other things I can get far more bang for my buck than comics, old or new. And as has been mentioned by other posters, if books keeping getting bought the price will keeping going up. But I think there will still be a limit for everyone at some point and monthlies will get bought about as much as US stamps. Then like email did to the postal service we might be left with nothing but digital, outside of what has already been printed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 14:03:57 GMT -5
I have never once used one of those download codes. Don't even have a Comixology account. Same here, I will never use downloads as an alternative to owning an actual copy of a book. But that being said, I still refer to digital downloads to check out anything interesting using a cbr reader....and then buy the original books if I like them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 16:18:59 GMT -5
With the current Marvel stuff, I have used the digital codes, but I don't have a comixology account, I redeem them directly from the marvel.com site and can read them there if I choose. The stuff I buy, I read in print, then redeem the code. The few things I want to hang on to, go into the boxes, the rest I put in my overstock/purge pile to be sold/traded what have you. If I ever get the hankering to re-read them, I still have a digital copy not taking up the limited space I have in the house. However I find, with rare exceptions, even though I am willing to read and reread older stuff several times (hundreds of times for my childhood favorites over the years), I rarely want to re-read newer stuff. Some of my favorite recent stuff (Saga, Fatale etc.) I have gotten the trade collections to have for rereading and sold/traded/given away the originals. So I am not concerned with hanging onto the originals with a lot of that stuff.
I know a guy, he's the con organized or Gem City Con, who sells books online and is always in the market for recent backstock. I sold him 2 short boxes of recent stuff (mostly Marvel Now stuff I read and redeemed the codes on) yesterday at the con-I had brought them to sell there cheap to put the money towards printing costs for our studio books), and he made me an offer on both boxes just as the con started, which was in the neighborhood of what I hoped to get for them over the course of the day, so I took it, and he basically said I had a standing offer to sell him more at the same rate if I get some. so for me the digital codes on the Marvel stuff solve storage problems and put money back into my comic hobby fund, so I appreciate them. I can't bring myself to buy just digital, but getting the digital as part of a package with the original "hard copy" is a marketing tool that works with me.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 8, 2014 21:47:35 GMT -5
It's a sliding scale for me. $1 is the most I'm willing to pay to pick up a book on a whim. $2 is the most I'm willing to pay to keep up with a character, creator, or run just because I'm enjoying it. $6 is the most I'm willing to pay for a book or run that's having a serious impact on me. As a result, my pull list is currently down to three titles, and I suspect I'll be removing one of them within the month. Meanwhile, when comics were still $2, I was buying more than half of DC's output, and when they were still $1, I bought absolutely everything that looked even remotely interesting to me. My scale is pretty similar... I shoot for $1 an issue on any back issues or trades.. going up to $2 for a hardcover if it's a nice presentation. For new stuff, there are quite a few books out there that I don't pick up 'new' (40-50% at DCBS, so $2 - $2.5), but that I'll happily pick up if they make it to a $1 bin... or, better still, the .50 bin at the local Newbury comics. My monthly DCBS ranges from $150 -$250... but 1/4 to 1/2 is trades. If it's in the middle of a run, or it's a series I collect and have a signifigant run in, I'll go up to $5 or so. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 21:55:32 GMT -5
I used to be pretty cheap when it came to back issues, which meant there was a lot of stuff I was going to have a hard time getting. I used to be at $1 an issue too, and SOMETIMES I could get an issue of SSOC or Heavy Metal for a buck, but not often. So now when I think about paying $4 for a current comic with a fraction of the pages that I might not enjoy as much, I'd be willing to pay that for a Bronze Age mag too, which means I should be able to start getting Warren mags and Epic Illustrated and all kinds of stuff, when I get back to buying back issues again that is.
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