For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy

[djohnston]

If you’ve ever bought a digital comic book, your experience probably went something like this: You opened up an app like ComiXology, paid around $1.99 to $3.99 — likely, the same price as a print issue — but never downloaded the file for the comic to your hard drive. That’s because you don’t really own it — you’ve simply licensed the right to look at it in someone else’s library.

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But for any comics that readers buy directly from Image moving forward, the model is simple. “As long as you purchased them, they won’t go away,” said Richards. “If you bought it, you own it.”

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