Viz titles are now available through the iBooks app on your iDevices. This pretty much makes viz available in all of the popular device formats. Welcome to the new age.
DC Cross Platform Support for Major Three
DC Comics announced that it will have all of it DC and Vertigo titles available for all three e-reader devices. So if you have a DC fan in the house and they don’t want to deal with issues this will be a new alternative on the Kindle Bookstore, iBookstore, and Nook Bookstore.
Shownotes for Episode 20: One Little Thing
1. Who Goes There, John W. Campbell, 2009, Rocket Ride Books. ISBN: 978-0982332207, $15.95.
2. The Thing From Another World, Director Christian Nyby, 2003, Turner Home Entertainment. ASIN: B0009NHC0, between $6.00 – $14.00.
3. Podcast Intro and Outro – Andrew Lubman’s, “Train of Thought”.
Other things mentioned were: Larry Niven; William Gibson; Robert Heinlein; Jules Verne; Leonardo da Vinci; James Arness; Jo; Wendy; Friends of Kansas Libraries; Kansas Library Conference; John Campbell Jr.; Kim Jong-il; Matt Dillion; Topeka; Korea; iPad; Firefox; Explorer; 501st; Boogie Man; World War I; Thought Experiment; “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”; Wright Brothers; Ebay; Classic Science Fiction; Classic Horror; Being Human; Day the Earth Stood Still; Protector; Stranger In a Strange Land; Gulliver’s Travels; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Gunsmoke; Planet of the Apes; Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Sly Cooper; Neromancer; Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests; and Father of Modern Science Fiction.
Episode 10, Neuromancer review: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-10-of-comicpop-library/
Episode 15, Protector review: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-15-of-comicpop-library-its-a-plucked-big-bird/
Episode 16.5, Kansas Library Conference Interviews: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-16-5-2012-kansas-library-association-conference-interviews/
iBooks gets Graphic Novels
The iBooks app is going to start carrying graphic novels available for the customers to consider as purchases. It is believed that Apple will add additional titles as time goes by.
Comic Magazine App for iPad
If you have an iPad and are interested in comic books you might be interested in this new App in the iTunes store. It is the Champion Magazine iPad App. The App. itself is free. So if you are interested check it out. Below is a link to the iTunes preview page of this App.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/champion!-magazine/id455870554?mt=8
Kindle Fire News
Kindle is going to a color format. This is probably in answer to the iPad and Color Nook. Amazon has upped the game by have exclusive content for graphic novel readers though. They have made a deal with DC Comics that the will have 100 exclusive graphic novel titles. One of the titles to catch most readers attention is Watchmen. This is sure to cause a little bit of dust in the comic community. If a person already has an iPad will they fill pressured pick up a Kindle Fire, because of the exclusive content, even if they don’t really want a Kindle Fire? Thanks to ICv2 for the story.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21138.html
DC’s 52 Event!
Today is new comic book day for all who are into buying comic books. Every Wednesday, unless a holiday causes a hiccup, is when that weeks new comic books come to the local comic book store for fans to purchase. Today is a little special though. This is the launch of DC Comics new 52 #1’s. What makes this day special is the way you can purchase the new 52 #1’s. You can purchase the print copy, which is still my method, or you can also purchase the titles digitally today as well. DC Comics is the first company to go to a print/digital same day release for all of it’s titles. The digital format can be downloaded on a computer, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, WP7, or PSP with DC stating that it is working on additional platforms for the titles to be downloaded to. Head on over to DC’s site for the article linked below.