I feel that the big barrier are the few thousand comic shop retailers who are afraid of the future. These retailers don’t see that people like me, life-long collectors of comics no longer want the burden of the physical object. I carry a device with me all the time with two dozen books, a dozen comics, games, and the Internet.

I am as lost comic shops as the people who still buy mail subscriptions to comics directly from the publishers. Let the industry grow or it will surely wither and die!

As a small-press/digital comics creator I would love to be part of a system like this as well. Maybe one that is solely an indie-based service and would give readers a low-risk chance to sample lots of new books like mine.

I have no idea what the economics of this type of thing would be or how financially feasible it would be for publishers and creators alike but it seems to make more sense than buying individual issues and I think fans and potential new comics readers would eat it up.