I'd be really disappointed if you went digital-only.
Offer both downloads *and* hard copy, sure, but not digital-only.
One virus & you lose your library, so hard-copy *only*, at least for me.
MORE PINK ROCKET, DARNIT!!!
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POLL: Ruby of Ragnoor -- Digital Downloadin All About Brad by GuigarThursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:10 AM I'd like to share a little proof-of-concept with you and get some feedback on it. I have made a digital download of the entire Ruby of Ragnoor storyline.So you can download this to your desktop, iPad or other tablet, and read the entire thing, from start to finish, with no ads. Oh, and if you do it now, you'll get to see tomorrow's comic, too! It's available as a PDF. (And I've created a special low-resolution PDF if that one is too big for you. That should work fine on iPads. Special for Kindle Fire usersFor you guys who got a KIndle Fire for Christmas, it's available as a MOBI file. If you want to send it to your Kindle Fire, follow these easy-peasy steps. NOTE: A CORRECTED VERSION HAS BEEN UPLOADED!Right-click the link above and choose Save to Disk. For Mac people, hold the Control button down and click, then choose Download Linked File. You can email this MOBI file to your Kindle account as a Personal Document. The next time you sync your Fire, it will show up on your Carosel. Here's what you're going to do. To send a document to your Kindle, it must be e-mailed to the user's Kindle e-mail address. This is not the address that is used to sign into the user's Amazon account. Rather, it is a special Kindle.com address that the user obtained when he or she registered their account. Finding your Kindle e-mail
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I've formatted the Kindle version so you can read one-strip-at-a-time in landscape mode, which will result is a nice, big, crisp image. If you're interested in seeing more digital downloads, please take a moment and help me test this out. Be sure to contact me with any thoughts, suggestions or bugs. POLL: I own a digital tablet -- like a Kindle, iPad, Nook, etc. -- and I'd like to see more Evil Inc downloadable offerings.
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posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 05:22 AM (#61052)
I'd be really disappointed if you went digital-only. Offer both downloads *and* hard copy, sure, but not digital-only. One virus & you lose your library, so hard-copy *only*, at least for me. --
MORE PINK ROCKET, DARNIT!!! posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:23 AM (#61054)
I don't own a tablet but would like to see more downloadable offerings :) Going to try this one out on my iPhone, but it worked Ok on the PC. posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:29 AM (#61055)
I dunno if anyone else has caught this, but there are at least a couple strips missing from the PDF that have actually showed during the story line. First one that I noticed being missing was when Miss Match first shows up in the jewelry store before Amazon shows up. The PDF skips that strip. There's at least one other I suspect is missing, but I didn't get a chance to spot the exact strip missing, I just know the flow in the PDF feels like something was skipped. posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:53 PM (#61057)
In the Mobi format include metadata like tags and a description. It helps the user to add the file to a Calibre library. Note the other reader for mobi file is the mobi pocket reader for both laptops and desktops, which can handle the color graphics. posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 02:19 PM (#61058)
I like the digital aspect- a nook version would be nice also. Another comment is that when you turn it to landscape, I like the one strip per page, but it's strange that it's neither justified nor centered on the screen. A small niggle. posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 05:25 PM (#61059)
There are several strips missing, that contain key plot points, and and one strip that has nothing to do with the plot. I love the strip and would love digital downloads, especially in MOBI format. But I was hoping to use this to introduce my son to Evil, Inc. Can you let us know when the corrected file is available? posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 06:48 PM (#61061)
I like the idea of downloads, but I don't own a reader type device. With the PDF on my laptop it's kind of fun to just scroll through the comics. I was thinking about buying a kindle, but after seeing the instructions for how to view the comic on that device... are you kidding me? I guess I'll stick to my laptop. click, save, double click, read away. 3 steps vs. what a dozen??? No thanks. Great job as always and thanks! posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 09:40 PM (#61062)
In Response to PagosaSam (#61061):
In all fairness, I could offer this through the Kindle store and it would be loaded directly to your device -- but then it wouldn't be free. An offering like this might be between $2 and $5. Would you be willing to pay for the convenience? posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:23 PM (#61065)
In Response to Guigar (#61062):
THANK YOU to everybody who caught the missing strips in the MOBI file. I have re-uploaded a fixed version, if you'd like to download the corrected file. It's the same link on the original post. Or you could click here. [evil-comic.com] posted Friday, February 17, 2012 - 02:28 AM (#61068)
The idea is great. I'm voting AYE with my both hands. It doesn't make hard copies obsolete - in fact, we get to proofread the hard copy before it is hard :) Turns out I was thinking in a similar direction. I made up a script that downloads strips and I was thinking about upgrading it to create a continuous CBZ archive in a nice automated way. posted Monday, February 27, 2012 - 10:18 AM (#61133)
Have you considered doing this as an ePub? That would allow for landscape viewing, with the art scaled to fit the new view. That's what was used in the Bloom County iBook and it works pretty darn good, imho. ePub is a format based on CSS3 in a ZIP file container.
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