Award-winning comic book company IDW may have just scored a major coup in the ever-evolving realm of digital comic books.  The company has announced plans to release a new line of digital comic book applications available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, two wildly popular new technologies.  What makes this even bigger is the fact that IDW has tied this in with the release of their Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie adaptations and prequel comics.   read more….

There have been several articles recently suggesting that new digital mediums for publishing comic books could mean the end of print comic books. A lot of these articles appear to be born out of DC Comics executive John Cunningham talking about how a small shift in readers to digital could throw off the economics of print comic books. While I agree that digital is an exciting new medium for comic books, I strongly disagree that digital comic books will mean the end for print comic books.

While printers for the newspaper and magazine publishing industries should be sweating the rise of Kindle and other digital mediums, comic book printers have much less to fear. Here is why. People buy newspapers primarily to find out about the latest news. People buy magazines primarily to educate and entertain themselves. People buy comic books primarily to collect them as a hobby.

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