One of MarketsandResearch.biz recent studies, named Global Digital Comics Platform Market from 2022 to 2028 provides a comprehensive industry overview, including product descriptions, market segmentation based on a variety of characteristics, and the current vendor landscape. It provides quantitative market research using data from annual reports, product literature, industry announcements, and other sources. In order […]
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Public libraries and schools exceed half a billion digital book loans in 2021
CLEVELAND, January 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As the pandemic lingered in 2021, librarians and educators enabled readers around the world to borrow 506 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines, a 16% increase from to 2020. By emphasizing equity of access to books for all, libraries have achieved all-time record circulation while reducing the average cost […]
Arktoons adds classic Bible tales to its growing collection of digital comics
Arkhaven Comics Founder and Editor-in-Chief Vox Day has announced that the digital platform, Arktoons, has added a brand new series to its growing collection of digital comics, Classic Bible Tales. Day made the announcement on Gab. He said, “Arkhaven has added classic biblical tales to Arktoons.” “It’s not something you’re going to see DC or […]
Kakao and Naver fiercely fight for Thailand’s first digital comic market
[Source: Kakao Entertainment] A horse race between Korean platform rivals Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. intensifies as the two compete for leadership in digital comics in Asia and the United States. According to app data provider AppAnnie on Tuesday, Kakao Webtoon, the digital comics platform run by Kakao Entertainment, and Line Webtoon, the global version […]
Kakao and Naver are fiercely fighting to dominate Thailand’s digital comics market
[Source: Kakao Entertainment] A horse race between Korean platform rivals Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. intensifies as the two compete for leadership in the digital comic space in Asia and the United States. According to app data provider AppAnnie on Tuesday, Kakao Webtoon, the digital comics platform run by Kakao Entertainment, and Line Webtoon, the […]
DC goes to bed with Webtoon for digital comics
| DC Comics has struck a deal with South Korean online publisher Webtoon, for a new deal with DC Comics characters appearing in the Webtoon comics. According to Variety, who got the exclusive PR, DC and Webtoon will collaborate on standalone webcomics that “will appeal to any fan, without needing to know or read previous […]
Digital book sales drop 23.4% in May 2021
April and May have not been good months for the eBook industry. The format fell 1.2% in April and generated $ 90.8 million in revenue. In May, the decline was more pronounced, falling 23.4% for the month from May 2020 to a total of $ 86.3 million. The declines are directly attributed to the opening […]
Rootines, digital journal for autism now available on iOS
RED OAK, Texas, June 1, 2021 / PRNewswire / – 1 in 45 people have autism spectrum disorder in United States and today ASD.ai (www.asd.ai) is pleased to announce that in support of this community, their Rootines app (www.rootines.app), a digital journal for autism, is now available for download on Apple App Store. Rootines was […]
Sony Digital Paper arrested in Japan
Sony Japan originally designed and manufactured all generations of the Digital Paper e-note. They have released the DPT-S1, DPT-RP1, and DPT-CP1 over the past six years. Initially, these E INK-based devices were only sold in Japan, until the US business unit was formed and mainly focused on selling them to businesses and eventually to consumers […]
Digital comics: the new Internet revolution? | new university
Associate Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia, Brian Yecies has joined a discussion with UCI libraries on the growing webcomic industry on March 9. Digital comics, also known as webtoons, originated in South Korea and are now available worldwide for people to read. This event aimed to showcase a new […]
Amazon cancels gospel book on transgender issue: ‘digital book burning’ and the power of holiness
Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos at the launch of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite personal devices in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, September 6, 2012. (AP Photo / Reed Saxon) Ryan T. Anderson is one of the most insightful writers and thinkers in the evangelical world. His research has been cited […]
Amazon Cancels Evangelical Book on Transgender Issue: A ‘Digital Burning’ and the Power of Holiness
Ryan T. Anderson is one of the most insightful writers and thinkers in the evangelical world. His research has been cited by two justices of the United States Supreme Court. A magna cum laude graduated from Princeton University with a doctorate in political philosophy from Notre Dame University, his work has been published in the […]
NC Kids digital library sees 1 million digital book orders, a 60% increase, during pandemic :: WRAL.com
By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom Editor North Carolina children read during the pandemic. Tuesday, NC Children’s Digital Library, a statewide e-book consortium, announced that it reached 1 million e-book orders in 2020, a 60% increase from the previous year. NC Kids Digital Library is available at all public libraries in North Carolina. To […]
Carnegie Public Library Nationwide Digital Book Club | News, Sports, Jobs
EAST LIVERPOOL – The Carnegie Public Library joins nearly 16,000 public libraries and tens of thousands of readers across the United States to deliver the latest selection of Together We Read: US digital book clubs. From February 10 to 24, library patrons can enjoy the Love Lettering e-book and audiobook by author Kate Clayborn for […]
More than 100 public libraries surpass 1 million digital book withdrawals in 2020
CLEVELAND, January 12, 2021 / PRNewswire / – A record 102 public library systems around the world have enabled readers to borrow more than one million eBooks and audiobooks from their digital collections in 2020. This represents the largest number of systems to have ever reached this milestone thanks to OverDrive, the leading digital reading […]
What is Comixology? Everything you need to know about Amazon’s digital comics platform
ComiXology is a leading digital distributor of Amazon-owned comics, graphic novels, and manga. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images ComiXology is a cloud-based digital comics distributor featuring over 75,000 comics from major publishers like DC, Marvel, Image, BOOM, IDW, and more. ComiXology offers a two-tier subscription model, including a free option and an unlimited tier costing […]
What is ComiXology? Amazon’s digital comics platform, explained
ComiXology is a cloud-based digital comic book distributor featuring over 75,000 comics from major publishers such as DC, Marvel, Image, BOOM, IDW, and more. ComiXology offers a two-tier subscription model, including a free option and an unlimited tier at $ 5.99 per month after a 60-day trial. You can read comics through ComiXology on multiple […]
Vortex247 Presents African Digital Comics
As some African comic book creators begin to attract publishers in North America and Europe, Vortex247, an Africa-centric digital comics platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, is developing the next generation of talent and harnesses the continent’s rapidly expanding digital mobile consumer. based. Indeed, the African continent, with a combined population of 1.2 billion and a […]
5 free digital comics to spend time with while on lockdown
If there is one thing that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has left for people is free time to discover new things to read, watch and listen to. But if there is one thing, the Covid-19 blockages do not have given the people, it is the disposable income to spend on these things. For comic book […]
Digital comics only represent 9% in North America
Digital comics are easy to buy, but they have not been accepted by Canadian and American readers. Only 9% of comic book sales are sold through Amazon-owned comiXology and other distribution channels and only generated $ 100 million in 2019. 90% of physical comics are sold in bookstores and stores in comics. ICv2 estimated the […]
The best way to read your digital comics
Comic shops, wherever you are. Photo: Stephen R. Clark The days are getting shorter, September is fast approaching and you are still behind on your summer reading. Our free time is suddenly so much more valuable, so tablets are a great way to take a virtual library with us wherever we go. Comics, graphic novels […]
Amazon’s ComiXology aims to revive digital comics market with ‘unlimited’ plan
Titles from some of the most popular comic series and creators are part of the new subscription plan.… [+] Image via Amazon/Comixology. If you enjoy watching comic book-themed TV series like AMC’s The Walking Dead Where Wynonna Earp thanks to subscription video services, there’s now a comparable way to get acquainted with the comics themselves […]
Comixology brings French digital comics to the United States and Canada
Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is launching 700 French comics on the North American market. The French titles are released for the first time in the United States and Canada and are a by-product of the launch of Comixology Europe, the Parisian division of the […]