Barnes & Noble Expands Digital Comics Selection

Ever since the Nook Color launched last fall, Barnes & Noble has been pushing digital magazines and children’s books — titles that lose their effect in black-and-white eInk. Now the retailer is also expanding its library of digital comic books, another genre that isn’t quite the same without color.

Interestingly, B&N is selling these comic books as apps. Publishers Weekly has the scoop: “Barnes & Noble, thus far, is operating through digital comics application providers Graphic.ly and iVerse. Comic apps listed in the Nook’s store function show either Graphic.ly or iVerse as the comic’s publisher, not Archie or Boom or IDW. Graphic.ly’s properties on the Nook include Irredeemable, Mouse Guard and Wanted. iVerse’s properties include Archie, and IDW’s Parker and Star Trek.”

Comic book app readers have dominated Apple’s Top Grossing book apps this week, showing that the demand for digital comics is definitely there.

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