Along with the reboot DC has announced it will be selling ALL titles Digitally on the day of publication for a $1 less.

This brings up a great question. Would you purchase a Digital Comic? At a discount no less?

Pros? For me.
1. No more boxes and boxes of 1 off comics you see, want to read but don't really want to collect a whole run.
2. Discount is always good.

Cons for me.
1. None.

How about you?

I'm about as rigidly against this as one can be, but practicality is making it an increasingly attractive option. Translation: I ain't got the room to keep collecting issues at my current pace.

Digital comics are awesome. The way Marvel has it set up is amazing.

As much as I love them though, I hope they don't totally replace paper books, because I do like digging through the bins of discount comics and finding cheap stuff that I wouldn't normally read. When I read digitally, I just end up reading a whole series instead of being forced to read a random assortment and discovering new things.

Even though I am only 28 and am not really old I like having a comic or book in my hand when I read. I like to have the CD booklet and case in front of me when I listen to CDs.

It definitely changes the idea of comics, comic conventions, comic shops, and other things related. I would hate to think that my grandchildren or great grandchildren can't go to a comic store.

I'll read them digitally if they make them legally available for free, but if I'm going to pay for them, I'm going to purchase the physical copies.

I thought they would be released same day at the same price and then be $1 less after a month?

Either way, I'm indifferent. Keeping it the same price means I would rather have the book and not the digital, which keeps the comic stores in business. However, going digital is a much better way to get new readers, since I know many people who would never enter a comic book store.

Ye-yeah. I like how digital comics take away the storing of physical copies in longboxes.

My external hard drive will become my new "long box."

I'll never pay full price for a digital version though. I have a hard time doing that with regular comics (retailer discounts for subscribers).

The big issue I have is being able to bring these digital copies with me on a portable device. I would really like to see a way where I can store the digital comics at home and then load them on a device before I leave somewhere. The biggest problem I see is piracy, but that will always be part of the game, much like music and regular books.

That format will be completely worthless as far as the "collecting" side of the hobby goes.
You can't trade it, you can't re-sell it. And how tech changes, several generations from now when someone finds a shoebox full of flash drives labled "comics - 2011"? They won't even be able to read them.... Heck, I might not be able to read them in coming years/decades if I don't have the right tech anymore/haven't re-bought them/etc!
So what did my $1.99 buy me? Nothing.

Thus I will not be buying my comics digitaly.
And should it come to a point where that's the only way to purchase them? Then I'll finally, truely, be done.

My reply is a distinct [shrug].

The majority of my comics reading these days consists of legal public domain 1940's comics (available online at an amazing variety of sites), so I've pretty much made the "digital switch" already. But if the Big Two think that I'm going to pay anything like full price for a downloaded "virtual copy" of a book or, worse yet, pay an annual "library card" fee to read comics online without even getting a download, they'd better guess again.

Digital comics is a great idea... the current model... not so much. Paying close to retail price for a digital comic is just not going to fly with most people. I'm actually surprised so many people by e-Books at the prices they are. If there was something where I could pay $x/month/year and read all I wanted, I'd be down with it. If the Marvel Digital Subscription tied into the iPad (instead of having a separate app and having to make individual purchases through that) I'd be down with it. Heck if I could pay a monthly fee ($10,20, etc) and pick x number of titles and get every issue of that, I'd be down with it. And of course they'd have to be readable on my iPad. I am definitely starting to prefer digital comics to physical ones... it's just less hassle for me to deal with.

I always have been and will always be a collector of REAL comic BOOKS.

I'm just old fashioned. Now I like digital comics too, nice to have while traveling, but I only do digital comics of titles I have the same version of in print.

I won't say exactly how many comics I have, but I will say I need to find new friends every time I move because they swear they'll never do that again...

Back in 2001, one way I survived being out of work for a year was by selling off chunks of my collection on eBay. But that represents only a specific part of my collection, long consecutive runs of key 80s/early 90s books. Taken as a mass amount, I doubt I could sell my collection for even a tenth what I paid for it.

And you know how often I go into those piles of longboxes specifically looking for something to read again? In the six years I've been in my current home... maybe four, five times? So it's not like I'm diving back into my collection for long-term entertainment value.

Every month I pay fees for cable, streaming online video, digital radio, and an MMO. I also pay one-off for movies (rental or theater). None of these seem to concern me overmuch.

This is my long-winded way of asking... are the benefits of having a physical edition really worth an extra dollar? Particularly when digital offers its own advantages to counterbalance?

I don't want to give up my weekly ritual of visiting the comic shop. It's important to me for a lot of reasons. But I don't need to get all of my comics that way. I could save the best of the best for that weekly time in the LoveSac with my cat and some comics, then get the rest a month later.

Of course, this is all a moot point until I get my tablet...

-J

Digital comics have zero collectability, and no resale value.

If that becomes the only way to read comics, I won't read comics anymore.

Reading comics on the iPad is better than reading normal sized comic books.

That being said, I still get trades of series that I really like.

so far reading digital comics is far to expensive,$1 less than paper issue? big deal,take a really big discount for me to even think of giving up reading and buying,those lovely paper picture books