Well it looks like stock prices in popular tablets are about to go up even more. Today Marvel announced exclusively through gizmodo.com that they will be joining the “day-to-date” club in the digital market.
This comes as no real shock as their biggest competitor, DC Comics, has received a big sales boost with their recent “reboot” and New 52 launch. Marvel’s already been offering day to date digital copies of select titles, but their new plan will have the vast majority of the rest of the Marvel’s publishing’s staggering in and completing by the end of March 2012.
The only exclusion to the new digital plan are third-party-owned titles, such as Stephen King’s The Stand books and Marvel’s mature line, MAX. DC’s mature line Vertigo remains, as of now, still not available on the same day-to-date program, but they have said that they plan to include it soon.
Currently Spider-man and the X-Men books are among some of the day-to-date offers joining the Ultimate Presents line. Marvel is looking to join fellow publishers DC Comics, Dark Horse, and Image in this new digital world, but is this another nail in the coffin that belongs to the collectible shops that have helped carried these publishers for over a decade?
To help those that have helped them so much, Marvel will be adding a free digital copy included as a download code with the physical copies still available in comic shops and everywhere else single issues are still being sold. This will begin with the upcoming release of Avenging Spider-man #1.
Digital downloads will be available through Marvel’s digital app, but how much good will it do when it’s a digital version of the book that the customer just purchased? Let us know in the comment section what you think of Marvel joining the day-to-date club, and if a free download of the same comic you just bought will entice you to keep buying from comic shops.
[source: gizmodo.com ]