Comic book publishers have included digital download computer code with single issue release before — indeed , Marvel Comics announced yesterday that theirUltimate Comics linewould come packaged with these code .
https://kotaku.com/marvel-introducing-free-download-codes-for-digital-copi-5858367
But starting February 2012 , Marvel will be the first amusing newspaper publisher ever to tender this digital buyback parcel for graphic novel , and they ’re start with their raw - reader - favorable Season One books . io9 spoke exclusively with the publisher about this initiative to give reader both digital and bookshelf pick .
Here ’s the long and the short of it — readers who purchase a Season One Bible will then be able-bodied to download a digital copy of the same graphic novel using theMarvel Comics appfor iOS and Android orMarvel ’s Chrome site . Here ’s the Season One roster :
• Fantastic Four : Season One by Roberto Aguirre - Sacasa ( Stephen King ’s The Stand Television ’s Glee ) and David Marquez ( confidential warrior ) , on - sales event in February 2012
• hug drug - Men : time of year One by Dennis Hopeless ( Legion Of Monsters , Lovestruck ) and Jamie McKelvie ( Generation Hope , Phonogram ) , on - sale in March 2012
• Daredevil : time of year One by Antony Johnston ( Daredevil ) and Wellinton Alves ( Nova ) , on - sales event in April 2012
• Spider - Man : Season One by Cullen Bunn ( Fear Itself : The Deep , Sixth Gun ) and Neil Edwards ( Fantastic Four ) , on - sales event in May 2012
These books — which tell apart in - persistence stories about the early twenty-four hours of Marvel ’s first superheroes — represent the first wave of Season One pictorial novels . The publishing company ’s plan a 2d slate of Season One releases later in 2012 .
On hand to discuss this new digital program were Arune Singh ( Marvel ’s Director of Communications , Publishing & Digital Media ) and Peter Phillips ( Senior Vice President & General Manager , Marvel Digital Media Group ) . Singh notice that the most obvious welfare of this download option is neat flexibility for comic lecturer :
It ’s a very mainstream - favorable move we ’re making . So citizenry may want to have the hardback on their bookshelves , but they also may need the digital transcript to read on the plane when they ca n’t hold five or six graphic novels .
Phillips further mention that this digital / photographic print program wo n’t be a one - mode street — Marvel is currently developing a program for next releases that will drive readers to their neighborhood comic shop :
One of the initiative we ’re working on is that if you do a digital download , you may get a coupon to bring into comic shops that ’s worth the buyback of a photographic print product in stores . Basically , it ’s our belief that mark plus digital equals publishing . So we ’re using print to promote digital , digital to promote print . We ’re pushing it all because we believe they make up the totality of user experience .
We ’re run short out reasonably aggressively because we believe in it and we ’re doing it for the consumers look the ability to have the hardcover and the on - the - go [ … ] The short of it is , there ’s nothing that we have n’t considered . We ’d be considering it based on the feedback we get , so there ’s no authoritative plan .
These are unquestionably some exciting developments for fans of the laughable culture medium . The first Season One graphic novel — Fantastic Four : Season One — hits storage February 2012 .
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