Bonus digital versions of IDW comics coming soon

[kristofferrer]

I just purchased the IDW collection from abroad ... does that mean i get a heap of digital media?

[Paulbot]

I just purchased the IDW collection from abroad ... does that mean i get a heap of digital media?

No, it's coming later this year and you get a code when you buy from a comic retailer as far as we know. It wont apply to anything you've already purchased. How good would that be.

[bowspearer]

It's an interesting concept and I'd love to see it expanded further. These days with things like android comic reader apps, as well as Cdisplay, there's been a digital comics market for years- much in the same way there was an MP3 market years before the industry caught on.

The potential there is massive- i just hope they don't screw up DRM in the same way the movie studios have with digital copies of movies.

[i_amtrunks]

It's a good idea, technically two issues for the price of one.

Too bad it looks to be retailer based, if you got an individual code from inside the issue itself which you could then redeem online without the need for the retailer to remember/have enough of the codes I think it would be a better system.

However that method would enable anyone who opened the issue to flick through it, take a photo or with the prevelance of smartphones auto scan the code online immediately and get the digital copy without purchasing the paper version.

It will be interesting to see how the trial goes.