Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Free Comic Books

Marvel's logo, circa 1990s.Image via Wikipedia

Always looking for ways to increase reader activity, Marvel Comics has set up a new program online that offers free comic books every single week!

That's right, FREE comics, every Monday! Now, Marvel die-hards will recognize this as Marvel's Free Mondays, the program that offers free DIGITAL comic books to readers for download and this is not quite a new concept, Marvel has been running their Free Mondays since as far back as May of 2008.

The downfall of this "free" stack of digital comic books is that, you actually must be a member of Marvel's Digital Comics Unlimited subscription service, which costs $59.88 (or, $4.99 a month).

Is this really a way to bring quality comics to devoted fans or merely a push to stop printing fees and save the comic industry money. More importantly, will this medium stick and are we looking at the future of comic books? We will see what the collective collector says.



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