flash is quick and easy to download and install.
and it's free!
Perhaps you should give it a try- it's been around for about four years, so you know it's not just a flash in the pan.
"I'm afraid I must disagree with McCloud saying that art isn't a commodity."
I think he meant commodity in the sense of an interchangeable product. Milk is milk, soap is soap, news is news. But Stephen King isn't Haruki Marukami and Ozzy Osborne isn't Justin Timberlake and Scott McCloud isn't Frank Miller.
If Frank Miller was doing a comic about, say, ancient Greek warfare, but it cost $3.95 per issue, would I therefore be getting the same for less (or no ) money by reading another comic on the same subject by a different artist for free off the internet? When it comes to news, however, the New York Times, and CNN and The Philadelphia Inquirer pretty much give the same facts (with the exception of the different papers delving more into local news). Therefore, if one were free and the other were 25 cents per article (or whatever), I'd be a fool to spend a dime.
Tycho made some good points in that article, but he eventually retracted most of it. He finally came to the conclusion that even though micropayments aren't for him, they might work for some folks.
Hell, I'm probably totally misrepresenting what he said (It's been a while) but he said something like that.
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flash is quick and easy to download and install. and it's free! Perhaps you should give it a try- it's been around for about four years, so you know it's not just a flash in the pan.
"I'm afraid I must disagree with McCloud saying that art isn't a commodity." I think he meant commodity in the sense of an interchangeable product. Milk is milk, soap is soap, news is news. But Stephen King isn't Haruki Marukami and Ozzy Osborne isn't Justin Timberlake and Scott McCloud isn't Frank Miller. If Frank Miller was doing a comic about, say, ancient Greek warfare, but it cost $3.95 per issue, would I therefore be getting the same for less (or no ) money by reading another comic on the same subject by a different artist for free off the internet? When it comes to news, however, the New York Times, and CNN and The Philadelphia Inquirer pretty much give the same facts (with the exception of the different papers delving more into local news). Therefore, if one were free and the other were 25 cents per article (or whatever), I'd be a fool to spend a dime.
Tycho made some good points in that article, but he eventually retracted most of it. He finally came to the conclusion that even though micropayments aren't for him, they might work for some folks. Hell, I'm probably totally misrepresenting what he said (It's been a while) but he said something like that.