Marvel and DC and Manga studios - make their works available via
Kindle: www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=156104011
Castle and Key Publications has released their series La Mano Del
Destino on web and print formats:
http://castleandkeypublications.com/wordpress/
As for the Kindle, my 82 year old technophobe boss who doesn't use a
cell phone, call waiting and definitely not email or internet of any
kind (he gets me to use it for him) has a Kindle.
Why? He had 1400 books in his apartment - no room for books! But he
doesn't want to not buy books, and this was the solution that he
thought of. He doesn't know how to put books *on* the Kindle (I do
that) but he had me write out instructions on and show him how to turn
pages and pick which book he wanted next.
He's in Japan now, where I print out his emails and fax them to his
hotel, for him to write replies on and have them faxed back.
Last year, he was in Tokyo during the earthquake, and the three things
he took from his room while climbing down 42 flights of stairs in his
hotel room was his jacket, his passport and his Kindle. And as they
gave him a chair while they scrambled to get power back on, and he sat
down and just read quietly till they were able to give him a room. I
have Kindle on my phone for the same reason my technophobe boss does -
because I don't have room for any more books in my apartment! I have
more books than bookshelf space - but not ever reading another book
till I throw books out is not a sensible option. (Not in my world
anyway)
It doesn't mean we don't love curling up with a good book, and I
certainly have paper books in my bathroom (I am not reading anything
digital in the bathtub), but this is NYC and we are eternally strapped
for space, and Kindle makes a good answer for some space issues.
- Tam
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Lorinda Kasten-Lowerre
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "I'll know it's all over when the only way Marvel and DC sell comic books
> is
> digitally... anyone remember the movie "Big"?? The digital "graphic novel"
> Tom Hanks created in 1988 never caught on." Larry Medina said.
>
> Marvel and DC don't, but I follow two comics online regularly, one
> illustrated chapter-by-chapter novel and three other online comics less
> regularly. Of these, I purchase hard copy graphic novels of Girl Genius
> (steampunk). Chasing the Sunset (elves, fantasy) is just now becoming
> available in print from the Netherlands via China, if I recall correctly.
> The one about the round-headed monk has several graphic novels out, I
> believe, but I'm not sure I want to track them down and buy them yet.
> There are tons of online comics out there which probably do not have print
> counterparts. Maybe not "caught on" with the general public, but
> definately a strong niche market.
>
> Lorinda Kasten-Lowerre
> Records Management Analyst, Senior
> American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
> Torrance, California, USA
> Member - The Orange County Chapter of ARMA International
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> Larry Medina - "RM makes the rules; IT provides the tools".
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