Return Of Bloom County. Sorta

Slartibartfast writes "According to mycomicspage.com, the entirety of Bloom County will be re-published on their site, starting St. Paddy's day, and at a "highly accelerated" rate of one week every two days, until the entire strip is up. In addition -- an extra-special bonus for us Berke Breathed fans -- his college predecessor, Academic Waltz, will also be run. One caveat: it's subscription-based. However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up."

Comments

Re:Great!

[terraformer]

It's an issue of value. Those who "steal" music (and that is debatable as to how many are outright thiefs and how many are out to "try-before-they-buy" the music) clearly believe that $18 a CD, which contains songs the listener is not interested in, is too high a price to pay. In the absence of any alternatives, theft is the only other option. Put true competition (of choice, price and flexibility) into the market and then those on Kazaa et al; can be called thieves.

For those paying for the comics, $10 is a fair price given that there are alternatives such as print, etc and this is simply another option. This may have problems in the long run because, for most, this is a lease agreement and not a purchase agreement the way a printed book is. Yes, you can save the images to disk but praticality for most users will rule the day.