| It’s time for our weekly look at the digital comics best-seller lists, and the one thing they have in common seems to be that they have nothing in common, except for the extraordinary popularity of Injustice: Gods Among Us and The Walking Dead. ComiXology 1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #25 DC owns the top ten list this week with seven comics; Marvel has two and Image has one. Injustice: Gods Among Us continues to top the list, and as in previous weeks, all the comics in the top ten are single-issue comics that came out this week. Amazon I’m not sure what planet the Amazon people are on, but their “Comics and Graphic Novels” best-seller list includes three prose novels and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (and no, it’s not a graphic adaptation). So I’m going to switch to the more reliably comics-oriented list, “Comic Books & Graphic Novels With Kindle Panel View.” This list is quite different, so it won’t be comparable to the previous week’s lists. Let’s take a look: 1. Superman #1 Here we see a completely different profile from comiXology. There are only three single-issue comics, and none of them new this week. In fact, with the exception of the Injustice comics, everything on this list has a publication date of 2012 or earlier, and there’s a strong preference for graphic novels. This is not the Wednesday crowd snatching up the new releases, it’s the bookstore shoppers looking for a complete story. Nook 1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #23 Once again, the free comics crowd everything else out—Barnes and Noble seems to be the only digital retailer that mixes free comics in with paid on its best-seller list. Just for giggles, let’s filter out the free comics and make our own list of paid comics on the Nook: 1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #23 That’s a pretty thin list. Apparently the only thing Nook users will spend more than 99 cents on is The Walking Dead. And by the way, the tenth-best-selling comic on the Nook is number 36 on their overall comics best-seller list, which means over half the top “sellers” are actually free. iBooks 1. Injustice: Gods Among Us #25 Well, now we know where the Bronies live! iBooks has an interesting profile, mostly single-issue comics, but not the newest releases for the most part. It will be interesting to compare these lists to the June best-sellers lists for print comics when they come out, and see which of these varied digital distributors comes closest to the brick-and-mortar world. Digital Comics Best Sellers for July 7 is a post from: E-Reader News |
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Digital Comics Best Sellers for July 7
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