Originally Posted by
Vampire Savior
Well, I can tell you what isn't normal, and that's paying 4 or 5 dollars for one 20 page story that is often just one part of maybe 6 parts. That's paying about 30 dollars for one story that is, much more often than not, mediocre. Those prices are absurd and if things went digital, it would help mitigate that. probably quite a bit, I'd say. One reason things don't go digital is because many people will not pay 4 or 5 dollars for a digital comic (or a physical comic). Part of the reason the prices are so high on digital is so digital comics do not undercut the prices people will find in comic stores, because the publishers feel if the comics stores go out of business, they (the publishers) would lose most of their readership.
When we consider how prevalent piracy is, I think a lot of people are already used to reading digital. I believe the best way to fight piracy is to put out content people really like, so they WANT to support it and want to buy merchandise like figures associated with it, and make it extremely convenient for them to get. More convenient than going to a site and being bombarded with unwanted ads saying that a woman 8 miles away wants to meet them, which may even freeze their browser. If you're going to price the comics super high, put out a bunch of mediocre at best content, and make it so people need to go to far and few between specialty shops to get it, you can bet your ass people are going to be pirating the crap out of that content.