Publishers Weekly has just posted an excellent piece on the rise of digital comics, and GoComics is featured throughout:
With initiatives either launching or under way at nearly every major comic book, manga house and traditional book publisher, digital comics are on the verge of becoming an important part of how the medium is marketed and sold, and suddenly nobody wants to get left behind.
“It's changed from people saying someday we need to do this to saying we need to do this now,” says Jeff Webber, v-p of product development at uclick, a mobile entertainment company that distributes comics content on cell phones.
Besides reading your favorite comic strips on mobile, GoComics also offers the GoComics mobile comic book reader, featuring a wide range of comic book and manga titles from major publishers including TOKYOPOP, Image, Virgin Comics, Devil's Due, IDW and more. As mentioned in the article, GoComics is also breaking new ground by offering IDW's Presidential Material comic biographies of Barack Obama and John McCain on mobile phones on October 8th, the same day they are released in print.
Click here to read the Publishers Weekly article. Click here to check out the GoComics mobile comic book reader.
