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Is there some kind of rights issue with The Last Generation? I've been wanting to read since it came out, but it's never been released digitally. It and Crew are the last two IDW comic series I've never seen as digital comics. Their Klingon miniseries wasn't for a long time too, but it was included in the Klingon themed collection that was released a while back.
According to my research today, TNG: The Space Between, Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Romulans: Pawns of War, TNG: The Last Generation, Crew, The Motion Picture Trilogy, Khan: Ruling in Hell, and Archives VI: Best of Alternate Universes have never been released digitally.
IDW's "Library of American Comics" titles (The Newspaper Comics I & II, and The Classic UK Comics I) are still missing from the digital formats.
IDW has also withheld various omnibus & large-format collections (The John Byrne Collection, Star Date Collections, The New Adventures, Countdown Collections, etc.) from digital release.
All told, IDW has something in the neighborhood of 30 titles never released digitally. It looks like they're working through their backlog, with several titles (Captain's Log, Alien Spotlight I & II, etc.) debuting in digital in recent weeks.
It seems strange to me that given how many people consume content on tablets these days (myself included), that publishers don't release everything they can digitally, to maximise the sales. I've bought tons of digital comics, but I pretty much never pick up a print copy of one.
Blood Will Tell was part of Best of Klingons, which was part of this Bundle.
Oh right, I was going to mention that. I guess there's no reason for IDW to release it on its own.
I believe the comic strip collections were expensive to produce, involved a lot of time and effort to restore the original prints to their most pristine, and faced a big challenge in securing the reprint rights and finding a complete set of the strips from collectors. To recoup their costs, IDW probably wants people to purchase these books exclusively in the more pricey physical editions and not have the option available (just yet) to buy a less expensive digital version.
You may have to wait a while for IDW to offer these particular collections digitally.
But surely the profit on a digital version is greater than a print version, as you don't have to physically produce it, store it, ship it, etc? Providing a digital edition has different overheads, sure (storage, bandwidth, etc), but this is comparatively minimal compared to dead -tree editions.
The difference is trivial. Due to economies of scale, the cost of those things is mere pennies per copy on a sizeable print run. Most of the expense of creating a book goes into creating the content -- paying for the many, many hours of labor undertaken by the writer, editor, copyeditors, proofreaders, designers, typesetters, cover artists, marketers, publicists, etc. Or in this case, as Sto-Vo-Kory said, the very time- and labor-intensive process of collecting and restoring the strips and securing the rights.
Wow, I didn't realize there were that many series not available digitally. Khan: Ruling in Hell has been available for a while now. #1: Comixology Amazon Google
I'm 100% digital when it comes to comics, so I agree. I don't drive so being able to get comics digitally is much more convient than having to get a ride from my mom to the comic shops, most of which are in parts of town we rarely go to. There is finally one that's in a part of town that my mom and I go to frequently, but now I really prefer digital anyways, so as long as it's available I'll go that way over physical books.
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