General Interest - Comics for the Digital Crowd

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the past thirty years, Golden Apple Comics in Los has been selling comic books to adults and children. CRAY: "I just like holding the pages and reading ." The look of comics has changed little. But store Ryan Liebowitz says something new is happening. RYAN LIEBOWITZ: " the last year or so, weve seen a major into digital comic books." Dan Cray likes both traditional books and the new versions. DAN CRAY: "I will there are some comics, like my favorites, that I , I actually too prefer having a hard copy. But, a lot of 'em it's just really convenient and nice to be able to get 'em. I can them on an iPad, and it's really a convenient ." Chip Mosher works for a company called comiXology. Its store has over twenty-five thousand comic books. CHIP MOSHER: " the last six to nine months, weve ranked as top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes app ." The price of a digital version is about the as a paper comic book. Ryan Liebowitz now sells comics on his store's website. He says people are both print and electronic versions. I'm Shirley Griffith.

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