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Just now is #11765745 entered by someone.
This project was funded via Kickstarter , but according to the latest update, only the DIGITAL versions are available, not the printed books.
It is also written in large letters on the image: Digital Deluxe.
It seems to me that this entry must therefore be rejected.
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Item has been rejected.
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This project was funded via Kickstarter , but according to the latest update, only the DIGITAL versions are available, not the printed books.

The importer of the digital book accepts the rejection. However, he states that digital (comic) books are being published increasingly often and asks if space cannot be made within LastDodo for this type of (non-physical) product.
Are there any ideas about this, and how could this be implemented in practice?
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I already spoke out about that in prehistoric times: digital comics and Digital comic collection .
Apparently, Arco had ideas about that as well, but that was not about the actual inclusion of digital items.
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'e-strips' in the LD catalog?
And what about e-books, music, movies, games... then?
You can 'buy' all of that 'digitally'.
Best to just stick to 'physical', I suppose...
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I believe the starting point was to only include items in the catalog that have been released on a physical medium. So book, CD, DVD, etc.
A USB stick, however, does not fall under that. This therefore also applies to self-recorded DVDs, CDs, etc.
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My main focus is on the digital editions that have not been released physically. Therefore, we do not have a complete overview of the entire oeuvre of a particular author.
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And my personal opinion: No.
Example: comics, books, etc. are sometimes offered for download on the internet (call them home work/private scans that are then compiled into a file format).
Given that this is home work and not authorized (e.g., copyright), and therefore has no official proof of existence, it will never be verifiable and will promote illegality.
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Digital editions of new releases are increasingly being sold via platforms like Kickstarter. Particularly due to the ridiculously high international shipping costs currently being charged, artists are offering special digital editions to garner more support for a project. These digital versions usually feature different covers or are clearly labeled as 'digital deluxe'. These deluxe versions contain extra pages with, for example, original script—pages that are not included in the physical version.
So this has nothing to do with obviously illegally copied/scanned digital "home" versions, but has now become an essential part of the comic scene.

I would say that digital versions that are demonstrably official (by means of name or mark) belong in the catalogue. Frankly, I think this discussion demonstrates that Last Dodo is seriously lagging behind in these developments. Nothing against the ideas Arco apparently had about this at the time, but times have changed.
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The original idea behind the catalogue was the inclusion of physical objects. Digital editions of (comic) books, music, films, and so on do not belong in the existing categories. Well, then we might be lagging behind Last Dodo, but nostalgia has its charm too.


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Everyone has their own opinion, of course, which is everyone's right.
But I do think there is an 'essential difference' between a physical item in my hands that I can 'browse' through, and a 'digital' item that is not in my bookcase and that I am supposed to browse through 'digitally'...
You should be able to 'feel' a comic...
And other covers, deluxe and other versions, dossiers, etc. have simply existed with 'paper' comics all along...
And that this is sold on certain platforms is okay.
But I don't know of a single site where I can find digital comics in a catalog to date.
In a 'sales catalogue', yes, that's true...
Or subscribe to 'S....s.be! for example! - just like with Netflix or Spotify.
A little further and there won't be much left of the prevailing 'comic culture'...
And it is also a bit of a trade-off.
Are we going to do everything 'digitally' then... e-newspaper, e-book, e-comic, ...
If I have sat at the PC for 8 hours for work, I have no desire to read another book on the screen...
And not as someone over 65 either; society is gradually becoming 'over-digitalized'...
But of course, everyone has their own opinion about it.
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Dear rikMooren, I didn't mean to offend anyone with my statements; I only want to say that digital comics have long ceased to be relegated to the illegal corner of home copiers and have since become a mature "category of their own." For that reason, that section would belong here now.
And since it is a demonstrably distinct category in the case of comics, I also don't see why that should immediately apply to films and music as well; the discussion there is obviously completely different, because that does not concern official variants of the same book/film/musical track.

I think that as a catalogue manager, you would want everything to be complete (with, indeed, official publications), and then it may be necessary to create a new section sometimes because new movements emerge.
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buizer I think that's a different discussion.
I don't have a preference for digital either, not at all actually. I completely agree that a comic needs to be felt and smelled, but that is a matter of taste and preference. That is not the point right now.
My point is that these are legal variants that, in many cases, differ from the paper version and therefore could deserve a place.
E-books and that kind of junk aren't unique; that's just another form of exactly the same thing.
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I don't feel attacked at all, mind you; in fact, the forum is meant for these kinds of discussions. Incidentally, I see no difference between an e-book and an e-comic book.
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rikMooren Okay, what I'm trying to make clear is that nowadays digital comics are being published (mostly via Kickstarter and similar platforms) that are different from the paper version. Different cover, extra content. This is because not everyone has room in their home for those beautiful booklets, or no longer wants to kill trees for paper, or the shipping costs are no longer bearable, and they choose this as an alternative to still support a project.

And that is the difference compared to a "regular" e-book; that is literally just the same book, but without paper. Indeed, it makes absolutely no sense to add those to LDD—I completely agree. But that is not what I am talking about.
What I am talking about are official, non-standard versions of a strip/comic that exist in digital form for whatever reason.

And I will leave it at that.
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Legal digital publications, okay, that much is true.
However, if you allow this on LD, some changes will need to be made to the structure of the catalog.
Not just the 'comic catalog'. But the entire catalog...
To start with what 'may' be entered...
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buizer Well, that’s another discussion too, I think. Even now, all sorts of things can be entered that are actually incorrect or irrelevant, completely wrong photos (personal pet peeve).
Sometimes that is indeed addressed by you, but plenty still slips through (understandable given the large number of new registrations).
So let's keep it simple and add a new variant to the list of 'types' for now.
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Although I now have my doubts about the practical feasibility – especially since the vast majority of all digital products consist of illegal copies – I have never seen a principled objection to including digital items.

After all, you are talking about images and texts that are reproduced in one way or another. A comic strip or text can appear as a printout on paper, or as a digital file displayed on a screen. A novel can also appear as an audiobook (on various media). Music has long ceased to appear solely as sheet music, on vinyl records, cassette tapes, or CDs, but also as a pure file in the cloud.
The only difference is the form (or "Kind", as mentioned above). Older generations of collectors, in particular, prefer a tangible form, but many younger people no longer collect their music or films on physical media. It is simply a different idea of what a 'collection' is.

Imagine that we did not allow comic stories in the catalogue unless they had appeared in complete album form. They might have been printed in installments in magazines or newspapers, but they would not meet the Album Type, and therefore would not be real comics. Would you agree with that definition? Those drawn comics would exist just as well, and that also applies when they are only available digitally.

A technical problem, to which I already referred 16 years ago, is the fact that you cannot start from the form of appearance (book, record, etc.), but the Story or the Track must be the starting point of the recording. That requires a reprogramming of the database.

Incidentally, this only applies to collectibles that are being digitized.
With stamps, coins, postcards, cigar bands, etc., I find it hard to imagine that they are collected as computer files.
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