

I’ve been away from the site for a bit, so first a little background on why I got tapped to talk about the state of digital comics as the Amazon fallout is reigning down: As a semi-reformed academic (I’m speaking at USC about entertainment marketing and fandom next month), I used to teach eBusiness at Columbia College Chicago and wrote three books on The Economics of Digital Comics that have been taught at the college level. Because transparency is not a word that’s been uttered about Amazon’s plans for digital comics.

It’s time to take a deep breath and look at what we do and don’t know. With Amazon kicking the Comixology staff to the curb in a staggered layoff, there are a lot of wild rumors flying around.
