Comics on the iPad. A match made in nerd heaven, right? Well, today it gets even better with the announcement that ComiXology and Marvel Entertainment have entered into a multi-year deal that sees the former exclusively distributing the latter’s digital catalog of English language single issues. Though the deal was actually signed on May 1, the announcement was delayed to make way for a particular movie premiere that some of you may have participated in over the weekend, Peter Phillips SVP and General Manager of Marvel Digital Media, told TechCrunch. Neither company would elaborate on the length of the deal but both agreed that the partnership would allow them to advance the art of digital storytelling. “This partnership will allow us to innovate and advance the digital storytelling and reading experience,” said ComiXology co-founder and CEO David David Steinberger. Phillips added that ComiXology’s “technology is by far the best.” Though the Read More

Posted 03/20/2012 at 3:33pm | by J.R. Bookwalter It seems as if the new iPad’s potential “TemperatureGate” is flaring up and burning even hotter than this morning (okay, enough with the bad puns), but Apple is all like, “Dude, we don’t know what you’re talking about.” Between you and us, it sounds like another one of these non-issues that will wind up becoming a class action lawsuit. Yawn… new Apple product, new headaches, we guess. Thankfully there’s more going on today than just warmed-up iPads, so here’s the rest of the news for Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Judging from our Twitter feed, the whole “new iPad gets too warm” thing we reported on this morning is spreading like… well, like a wildfire started by a hot iPad, maybe. We quipped earlier that Apple may have a “TemperatureGate” on their hands if the complaints keep up, but Cupertino is playing it cool Read More

That’s right Marvel fans, it looks like you will soon be able t0 download your favorite Marvel content through Apple’s iBookstore. The comic book-creator announced today that it would be bringing more than 80 of its graphic novels to the iOS book market. Of course, you can already access Marvel’s work through its standalone application. But this move will make the content, which includes popular Spiderman, Avengers, and X-Men titles, available to a much wider audience… Considering that iOS 5 automatically prompts users to install iBookstore on launch, you have to imagine that the app’s user base is fairly large. Not to mention that Apple announced last month that iBook downloads were approaching the 200 million mark. So this looks like a smart move by Marvel. And if you can’t wait to get your hands on some of the company’s classic comic content, you can download the New Avengers Vol 1: Read More

posted by Jacob Penderworth on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 2:50 pm.   Originally submitted by Jacob If you’re an avid reader of Marvel’s comic books and also own an iPad, then you’ve probably been pondering whether to read some comics on your iPad for a change. Because really, wouldn’t it be great to read them using Apple’s beautiful iBooks app? (This is, mind you, assuming that you do not have a Kindle.) Yes, Marvel does have their own app with all their most popular comics available as in-app purchases, but since iBooks has always been great for reading, why not use it instead? Well, Marvel must have thought the exact same thing because they’ve released over 80 of their graphic novels on the iBookstore for comic book and iBook readers alike. Read on for a few of the particulars on Marvel’s recent release. “Marvel is taking the world of comics Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Sep 20, 2011 | Marvel is starting to offer Digital Comics Cllections for iPad, the digital equivalent of the traditional trade paperback, which combines together the single issues of a story line into one volume. Only 10 titles will be available at first, focused around the Ultimate Universe and current movie properties. Hopefully more will be available soon, and hopefully DC will jump on this bandwagon as well. If you’re in the mood to try it out, head on over to the Marvel Comics app [App Store link and pick up Astonishing X-Men (by Joss Whedon) and Ultimates (by Mark Millar) now. Read More

Posted 07/23/2011 at 3:24pm | by Andrew Groen Even if you've never stepped foot in a comic book store in your life, you don't have to sit out on the action. Comic book readers for iOS let anyone indulge in stories of adventure and superheroes. In honor of Comic-Con, we found 10 of the best -- some are free apps that let you buy comics as in-app purchases, and others are paid library apps where you upload digital comics you already own. But at least one should suit every true believer's needs. 1 of 10 ComicsComics, more commonly referred to as Comixology after its developer, is notable for one specific reason: it's the only place where you can buy comics by DC along with publishers, which makes it a must-have for comic fans. The free, universal app may not be the best software for reading, but when you've got the weight Read More

A lot of the App Store's biggest apps have been on sale this weekend, and a few holdouts dropped prices earlier today. If your head hasn't hit the pillow yet after your local fireworks extravaganza, make sure to grab some of these while the prices are low: Enjoy those apps, and we hope you had a safe and happy holiday! Read More

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Music piracy rose to epidemic levels at the beginning of the 2000s (although, according to Wired, those days are now over). There were many causes of this growth in piracy -- high speed internet access, easy-to-use P2P software -- but perhaps the biggest accelerator of music piracy was two-fold: the emergence of devices that allowed us to easily copy and then consume music (namely CD-burners, and then MP3 players) away from the computers we downloaded them on, and the reluctance of the record industry to embrace new technology. In other words, once people had the hardware for consuming digital music, the record industry failed to give listeners the digital music they wanted at a reasonable price and in an easy-to-access centralized location. The same factors that lead to mass music piracy are now in place to disrupt another flavor of media -- comic books. The excitement and media attention around Free Read More

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Comic Viewer for the iPad is just another generic comic reader app. Or is it? We’ve seen eReader apps like iBooks, magazine apps like Time and Wired, and comic reader apps like Marvel and IDW Comics. But although all of these apps seem to dominate their respective fields, what we haven’t got is a King of comic reading apps. Currently, iBooks seems to be the dominant eBook reader, and Wired is still the smoking hot magazine app on the block (for now). Yet the comics region, however, is still pretty much unclaimed – debatably until now. Comic Viewer, which was released yesterday, is a new contender. The application is priced at $4.99 and works pretty much in the same way as iBooks. A library view is implemented which shows your entire collection – a collection that can be added to either through iTunes, or through in-app purchasing over Wi-Fi or 3G. This Read More

Business Insider has a post up from AdAge about magazine pricing on the iPad, and they've got bad news for anyone planning to transfer all of their magazine subscriptions to Apple's magical device: It'll cost ya. While a year's worth of goes for $12 from the publication's website (or even cheaper if you can pick it up from Amazon or that random kid wandering your subdivision selling subscriptions), the iPad subscription will cost $29.95; that's over twice as much. You can buy a year's worth of on Amazon for just $10, but one issue on the iPad costs you half of that. Why? At first, the cost seems like a ripoff; publishers don't have to pay for paper, ink, or postage, so you'd think the content should actually be cheaper. Then you calculate in the cost of interactive designs and features, researching new technologies, and creating new workflows, and creating an Read More

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Marvel comics have graced us with their presence for years and most recently provided some of the best action hero movies to date. There is practically no-one within an earshot of a city in america who hasn't heard of at least one of the comicbook characters created by Marvel. Spider-Man, X-Men, the Hulk and so many more have been created by the immensely huge company. Now there is an app for both iPhones and iPads alike to view many of the major comic books put out by the company. The app is essentially an iBooks app for comic books, with it own store right within the app. Users can search for and purchase a comic for a price and immediately get to reading it. One nice feature was the ability to let the app take you through the comic. By enabling the feature, it would automatically zoom to different parts of Read More

Editor-in-Chief, iLounge Published: Friday, April 9, 2010 Category: iPod, iPhone, and iPad Gems: Apps, Games + More Welcome to our first non-gaming edition of iPad Gems! As with our earlier game-focused version, we’re looking at a huge collection of different iPad apps today—20, actually—giving each a relatively brief overview. Unlike the prior column, we’re looking here at apps that either didn’t exist on the iPhone and iPod touch, or never previously received attention in one of our Gems pieces before. They’re unrated for the time being, but our descriptions make clear whether they’re worthy of your time and attention. ABC Player Apart from the app’s unfortunately vertical-only browser design, ABC Player (Free) from ABC Digital is an exciting piece of software—arguably the single biggest step forward in media consumption on an Apple device in a long time. ABC Player is a full-fledged browser and streaming video player for the ABC television Read More

(Danke, David!) “App Store-Analytiker” Distimo ermittelte für den derzeitigen Software-Stand 2.385 verfügbare iPad-Anwendungen. 35-Prozent sollen auf die Kategorie “Spiele” entfallen. Mit diesem Thema habe ich mich in den letzten 24 Stunden noch überhaupt nicht beschäftigt. Meine Aufmerksamkeit galt der “gedruckten Unterhaltung”. Entgegen der iPhone-Version ist der RSS-Reader NetNewsWire (7.99 €; App Store-Link) eine erste sehr gelungene Umsetzung, um seine Feeds auf das schlanke Apple-Gerät zu befördern. Bis zu 10.000 ungelesene Beiträge empfängt das Programm vom Google Reader-Account und navigiert schnell durch die Informationsflut. In Ermangelung von Software-Alternativen gilt es diesen positiven Status Quo in einigen Wochen noch einmal zu überprüfen. Meine derzeit favorisierte iPhone-Anwendung heißt bekanntlich Reeder (2.39 €; App Store-Link). Sein schweizer Entwickler verriet uns, dass eine iPad-Umsetzung schon in Arbeit ist. NetNewsWire verdrahtet sich bereits in seiner Mac-Fassung mit dem “Read Later”-Service Instapaper von Marco Arment. Die iPad-Version tut es seinem Desktop-Bruder gleich, und lässt euch Artikel zum späteren Read More

With the iPad's arrival this weekend, a holiday weekend for many Americans, this new iPad owner had the chance to see the device in action. In fact, "see" is the operative word here. Not, "play with myself," as is the case with most new tech gadgets I purchase. Instead, I simply watched from a distance as, over the course of the day, the iPad found its way into the hands of nearly every family member from ages 4 months to 87 years old. The incredible thing? No one walked away confused, frustrated or disappointed. It did precisely what they wanted it to do and with such ease that my tech support was not required - not even once - allowing me to sit back and relax...with an old-fashioned, paper-based magazine. After hearing the hoopla from the iPad launch, the crowd of "not-so-early" adopters has likely been left wondering if this is Read More

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By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Apr 4, 2010 | Marvel Comics for iPad [Free - iTunes link] and iPhone [Free - iTunes link] finally brings one of the big two old media giants to the mobile age — albeit kicking and screaming. And… this is the future of comic books. They look gorgeous on that big 1024×768 screen. There’s a ton more functionality shown off in the video below but they get the core experience right and that’s the most important thing. There are other comic book stores and readers for iPad, and we’ll be looking at them, but Marvel deserves huge kudos for even entering this space — unlike DC which continues to sit on the sidelines, treating the digital revolution as confusingly as their cross-over events. (What?) Now I’m a comic book geek from way, way back. Among my first comics were the now-Classic Dark Phoenix Saga from the X-Men. Read More

Das Wall Street Journal (kostenlos; App Store-Link) lässt sich im iPad-Abo für $3.99 US-Dollar pro Woche oder $17.29 US-Dollar im Monat beziehen. Wer bereits Abonnent ist, kann für $1.99 (pro Woche) und $8.62 (im Monat) die digitale Version (inklusive Reklame!) erwerben. Damit lassen sich die ‘Abonnenten-Kategorie’ wie “Business” oder “Markets” einsehen, und für sieben Tage (Offline) archivieren. Ohne Abo bekommt der Leser ausschließlich die Leitartikel und Marktdaten. Und hier die aktuellen Preise für das derzeitige Print-Angebot: Yep. Die digitale Ausgabe kostet für neue Kunden erheblich mehr, als die subventionierte gedruckte Papier-Ausgabe. Mittlerweile sind auch die offiziellen Apple-Programme im US-App Store zu finden und käuflich zu erwerben. iBooks (kostenlos; US-Link) kommt bereits in verschiedenen Sprachen (Chinesisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Italienisch, etc.), wird jedoch über den iBookstore zuerst englischsprachige Literatur zum Kauf anbieten. Wer eigene EPUB-Bücher (ohne DRM) auf das Gerät synchronisieren möchte, tut dies über iTunes 9.1. Pages ($9.99; US-Link); Numbers ($9.99; US-Link) Read More

Marvel Comics on the iPad If you’ve been keeping up with some of the unboxing and video reviews for the iPad, you’ll likely have seen the Marvel Comics app (briefly) in action. Well, now that Apple have let loose the iPad apps in iTunes almost 2 days ahead of launch date, the much hyped Marvel app can actually be downloaded for your iPhone and iPod Touch this very moment. Introducing the MARVEL COMICS app, a revolutionary new way to experience the Marvel Universe on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, featuring the world’s most popular super heroes! Download hundreds of comic books featuring your favorite characters -— including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine and more — on your mobile device with the touch of a button. You’ll experience Marvel’s greatest series and stories like never before, with your choice of guided view (an animated, panel-by-panel path through the comic), Read More

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