This article was written in 2005.
Is there money in eComics? The simple answer is yes. The complicated answer also happens to be yes.
I know there are going to be people out there that want to debate this issue with me–especially since I have stopped charging for my own eComics (at least for the time being) due my success with The Jubilee Project…so I’m going to make it very simply for everyone to understand this:
Shut your mouths, shut your assumptions off, and let me take you on a walk through the concept of eComics.
You have a comic. It’s good. You know it’s good…people tell you it’s good.
Yet, no one in their right mind will give you the time of day, when it comes to publication.
Why not? It’s GOOD!?!!…..right?????
There are many reasons for the rejection…but with eComics, that simply doesn’t matter. Why is that? Because you have a way to be seen by the literal world…without leaving your home. No calls to make, no face to face rejection. Sounds good, right?
Well, it gets better.
This same creation of yours can be set up with an automatic delivery system, as well as an automatic charge system and notification system, so that when an issue sells, all you get is a notice that you have money. One more click, and in 3 days—it’s in your bank account.
Sound good? Wait, there’s more.
Let’s say you create a comic, like WANTED:HERO, and you decide it has fantastic value. With this method, you don’t have to pay a printer, you don’t have to pay any employees, you don’t have to pay for shipping, warehousing or even packaging!
You PASS THAT SAVINGS ON TO THE READERS AND OFFER THE ISSUES FOR UNDER A DOLLAR! I mean, who in their right mind, is going to argue with a single dollar? That’s less than a 16oz. soda from a vending machine!
Now here’s the beauty of eComics: Once the work is done, it’s done. It has unlimited shelf life, for the people 5 years from now, who heard about your comic over breakfast, lunch, dinner, bowling or the old woman’s Church Bingo night.
How many readers can you develop? Lets say it takes you a few years to build up readers…but you get it up to 5000 readers monthly? At one dollar per reader, per month, that’s not too bad. Especially if your numbers continue to grow over time…5K, 7K, even 10-50K…on the internet, that’s not even a drop in a bucket! Now, at the end of the year, you take the work that’s already done, and create a printed version for those not converted to eComics, but they still want your story…
That still doesn’t include the Caps, Mugs, T-Shirts, Posters and much more that you can offer your readers, should they desire it, with a cost of mere pennies to you!!
Oh, says one—But people will steal the eComic, and send it to friends and not pay for it!
Let me tell you something…it’s not called stealing…it’s called ‘advertising’!
The more they get hooked on the comic, the more they will come back and the more they will talk about it….
That’s what you want!
As this monster you have started, grows, issue by issue—-so will your readers…even if it’s only one at a time. …and when that snow ball finally starts rolling down the hill (the tipping point), there will be such a huge database of products for your readers to partake of, you’ll be laughing to the bank.
Well, to the other room, where you’ll send it to the bank via online transfer, anyway!
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