Disney's (DIS), a unit of Marvel Comics launched on 03 April a comic book iPad application which is free for download from the Apple's App Store. Software allows fans to buy digital versions of more than 500 Marvel comic books for $ 1.99 each. Readers use their fingers to go through the replies crisply colored comic pages. " The goal is to expand the audience for Marvel, which Disney bought for 4.3 billion U.S. dollars last year. ". Expanding their audience is very important and such releases can certainly attract new clients because they represents types of applications that we are all interested in using nowadays.
"Our app for comic book lovers and readers expired people who might be thirty or forty years that he stopped to buy books [Comics] after college," "said Ira Rubenstein, executive vice president of worldwide Marvel Digital Media Group. Panelfly, a New York company that distributes digital comic books, plans to launch an application for iPad reading comics in the coming months, which allows users to buy and read titles from 50 publishers. Marvel Comics, along with publishers and Top Cow Sterling plan to distribute the titles through his Panelfly app ..
"There is a huge opportunity to expand the market". "Issuing digital comic books on the iPad, said David Steinberger, CEO of ComiXology, a company that helped produce iPad software Marvel website. DC Comics has announced plans for the software iPad, but says it is the appreciation that other tablet devices. "Our sense is that digital comics will grow and will complement already have built their businesses through the current network of stores in your local comic book and mass market bookstores, said Jim Lee, co editor of DC Comics, which publishes Batman, Superman and other popular franchises. Digital comics are more than familiar these days and Apple clients are more than pleased to be offered the possibility of taking advantage of such apps. Digital Comics is certainly a concept that will gain even more popularity in time.
Start Graphic.ly, which is part of Microsoft's BizSpark for young companies, is developing, also an application that will let fans trade iPad comments Digital comics pages. iPad is the only digital device new comic book publishers are assessed. Marvel's Rubenstein says the company intends to also post the tablet running Google (GOOG) Android operating system. Such applications are the ones that attract our attention because they are useful for us to take advantage of in this world of technology in which we live.