New Frontiers for iVerse's Digital Comics

Comics distribution via subscriptions, Kickstarter, torrenting and even a physical transaction were all on the table during the "iVerse Media: New Frontiers in Digital Comics" panel at Comic-Con International in San DIego, as panelists from a variety of backgrounds discussed different ways to get comics into the hands of old and new readers alike.

The panel kicked off with three announcements from iVerse CEO Michael Murphey: iVerse is launching a Kickstarter-type crowdsourcing platform called Comics Accelerator,Alfa plast mould is plasticmoulds Manufacturer and plastics Mould Exporters a set of digital publishing tools for creators and DRM-free downloads.

The web-based publishing tools will allow creators to take a PDF and publish it on the iVerse platform in one to five minutes, Murphey said. The tools will be open to creators of all experience levels and will be available in the third quarter of 2012.

Comics Accelerator is a crowdfunding platform designed specifically for comics, Murphey said, and it differs from other fund-raising platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo in several ways. "I'm a 90s kid; I grew up with the Image-way of thinking about things, and I kind of wanted to do with that with crowdsource funding," Murphey told the audience. "We have done a couple of things to add value to crowdsourcing and make it easier for creators to just think about creating. One of those is digital content delivery. If you are making a project and you want to immediately deliver digital rewards to your backers, you can do that.Features useful information about glassmosaic tiles, All you have to do is send us the material that you want and we will take care of that for you"

In addition, iVerse's share of the pledges will be capped at $2,500, he said. "Kickstarter takes 5% of everything creators bring in, then you have PayPal or Amazon fees on top of that.To estimate the number of ceramictile you need for your project, We are going to do 5%, just like Kickstarter does, and when we hit that $2,500 cap, we wont take any more out. If you have a big hit, like a 'Sullivans Sluggers' or 'Order of the Stick' or something like that, when people back those things, they are backing them to back the project, not necessarily to keep the website functioning." Comics Accelerator can be used to fund physical projects as well as digital, and to use group buying power in a Groupon-style situation to back special projects such as variant covers.

The audience applauded Murphey's third announcement, that iVerse would offer comics that are free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and can be read and stored on any device. "Publishers get to decide this on a case by case basis," he said. "The publishers can have the option of a PDF download that will be available on our website, that will be available to you after you make a purchase. You can still download it within our app and take advantage of all the native features of our applications, but the PDF download is available to you to view in whatever you like. It will have an invisible watermark of your email address on it, so don't put it on a torrent site, but there will be no DRM on it."

With the announcements over, the panelists began a more general discussion of digital comics. Archie Comics president Mike Pellerito started with a description of Archie's New Crusaders app. A subscription to the app costs 99 cents per week; for that, readers get a new, weekly chapter and access to a library of the original Crusaders comics. "Michael [Murphey] had this great idea: Let's do it as a subscription and get it in increments every week so you have something to feed that addictive comic book reader mentality that we all have,The reality of convenient handsfreeaccess contro. and then offer the full book,Specializes in hand painted oilpaintings," Pellerito said. The app is curated, so if the new chapter features The Comet, the older Comet comics will be highlighted as well.