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Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Lieber, the artist behind the graphic novel Underground, discovered that someone on 4chan had scanned and posted the entire comic. Rather than complaining, he joined the conversation, chatting with the 4channers about the comic... and the next day he saw his sales jump to unheard-of levels, much higher than he'd seen even when the comic book was reviewed on popular sites like Boing Boing."
You do know 4chan has a big comics board right? People on it are pretty heavily into comics. If the world is out that the author cares enough to discuss with his fans the non hardcore fans will hear good things from the hardcore crowd and also buy.
This kind of reminds me of what Monty Python creating their own YouTube channel and their sales going up 23,000%. http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/monty-python-youtube-move-boosts-dvd-sales-23000
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Ah, but as shares concentrate into the hands of the few and powerful,but sales dwindle
Then the music publishers affiliated with the major record labels will likely start making accusations of cryptomnesia, or accidental infringement of copyright in a work published years ago, against indie songwriters and recording artists. See Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music for an example of how it could go down.
The B&W chapter 1 preview PDF on the author's site is NSFW.
It's a perfect time for being wasted.
A perfect time to watch the stars.
- Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
Well if your looking at anecdotal evidence, I ordered and Ipad from the apple store (as a gift) and it didn't even ship until 4 days after it was supposed to be delivered. This is with a promise of "ships in 24 hours". Apple customer service ran me around for an hour claiming I hadn't even made an order until suddenly they found it in "some other system". They then promised it would still deliver on time. I don't see why they just couldn't have been honest and told me they were backordered instead of wasting an hour of my time mostly listening to crappy on-hold musak!