What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
Cosmic Ray Gun spokesman Tony Garza praised comiXology's navigation approach, but pointed out some important caveats. "Panel to panel navigation works great for small screens, but for tablets it's not really necessary since the text is big enough to read. Some companies do slice the pages up by panel, but the tradeoff is the books become larger in file size. This in turn becomes more expensive in stores that charge by file size, such as Amazon."
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.