If you’re in or near Columbus, Ohio, and want to go grab a copy of Shortpacked! Book 4, there are some copies at The Laughing Ogre. I’m still in the middle of mailing out the preorders, and when I work through a bigger chunk of those, I’ll put Book 4 up in the store. But in the meantime, if you’re local, you’ve got an advantage.
Out today was the comic book store edition of BotCon 2011′s Transformers Animated adventure. Be sure to hit up your local comic book store for that! In addition to like 16 extra pages of content, there’s photos of my Animated Minerva toy and … okay, a half-page ad for Shortpacked!. There’s nothing new there on that front, really. Just figgered I’d mention it. But the story itself is fantastic and amazingly-rendered, and I recommend it.
I’ll admit, my first thought on seeing that ad was “I wonder how much TCC mag ads cost anyway?”
Appropriate ad for the material, but I wasn’t expecting to see it.
It’s part of my payment for doing Recordicon strips for them, so in my case it cost “some hours of artwork.”
Any chance FanPro will make any of their comics available digitally? There’s several issues I never was able to get Diamond to cough up, and it’d be nice to be able to get ebook versions legally. (Illegally, getting them is pretty trivial.)
I doubt Fun Publications would ever go for throwing up a PDF of their comics for sale. They’d probably think of that as just making it easier to pirate. When it’s easy to go ahead and torrent them anyway, that’s not a great attitude to have, since you lose money from people who DO want to pay you money, but…
Doing the comic as anything other than a PDF isn’t gonna work, like in an eReader format, because a lot of formats charge money per megabyte downloaded in addition to the actual cost. To keep costs competitive and non-insane, the publisher/artist has to eat that megabyte download fee, and that eats into basically all the profits. That’s why you don’t see a lot of webcomic collections on ereaders. It’s simpler to just throw the PDF on the internet and charge for it through your own webstore.
Indeed. I wish more people had Baen’s attitude towards digital content. While some people are cheap bastards who will pirate even if paying is easy and reasonable, I like to think enough of us will pay for things to make it viable. But if they’re not for sale, we can’t buy them. We CAN, however, generally get pirate copies with nearly zero effort or risk. So, refusing to sell me a PDF for a buck or two is basically saying you want me to pirate.
BotCon 2012?!? OMFZGWTFLOL
Picked this up today and the first thing my wife and I did was flip through it to find the Shortpacked! ad.