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Take an early look at Longbox Digital comics
Longbox Digital CEO Rantz Hoseley has posted a video, labeled as a “Pre-Beta Screencast,” that demonstrates some of the features of the much-discussed digital-comics platform.
Announced in June at HeroesCon, Longbox has been billed as “iTunes for comics.” It will feature 99-cent downloads of comics from such publishers as Archaia, BOOM! Studios and Top Cow Productions and creators like Richard Starkings, Ivan Brandon, Jonathan Hickman, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen. Longbox is set to launch in October.
5 Comments
Niels van Eekelen
August 18, 2009 at 8:51 am
In the part about coupons, there’s an example where you can get a free issue of Uncanny X-Men. Random example, or is Marvel joining up?
Rantz Hoseley
August 18, 2009 at 11:08 am
It’s a random example from a much earlier demo that should have been removed, but I failed to catch it. It is not indicative of any deal with Marvel.
Niels van Eekelen
August 18, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Ah, shame. But the demo still looks good.
Bob the Monkey
September 1, 2009 at 10:36 am
It looks interesting, but until Marvel and DC are involved I can not see it really taking off.
Chuck Moore
September 11, 2009 at 9:45 am
Why wait on Longbox’s beta when you can buy digital comics and be reading them today? ComicsXP.com’s store is open to the public and already seeing a nice mix of publishers and sales.
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