No offense to the people at clickwheel, but I could count the amount of people who know about their service with one hand, and I am missing a finger (kidding!)
I don't know if you are familiar with this yet, but the incredibly popular ComiXology (http://www.comixology.com/) website have launched an iPhone comics app (iTunes link (http://comixology.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87b2dd9548a62b1f5d610ba4f&id=0877b6e1ad&e=99976e373c)) that has already become insanely popular in very little time.
This is the list of comics on the phone so far: Clicky (http://www.comixology.com/digital/?utm_source=iPhone+Comics+app+users&utm_campaign=6815138e2d-Comics_update_8_26_2009&utm_medium=email). As you can see they've started out with smaller titles like Rob Williams' Cla$$Wars, Richard Starking's Elephant Men, Tony Lee's Midnight Kiss, Atomic Robo etc.
These are all comic that appear on Clickwheel already, but no body bothers with. I have heard very good reports from people who have put their comics on the app and say that they have found a whole new market that they did not have through the Local Comic Store market. I have also heard that putting your titles on more than one digital distribution system is not a problem... unless you have some specially deal with Clickwheel.
I was talking to the comiXology guys on Twitter the other day and told them that a really good comic to put on their app would be 2000 AD, they told me that they would LOVE to have the comic on their, but the website was down so they couldn't find a way to contact Rebellion. They did a tweet asking who would like to see it on the app, and were flooded with responses and retweets saying that they would love to see it, many by people in the US who had no idea how to get 2000 AD, but would love to.
I would seriously recommend discussing it with the comiXology people. It would be an incredible smart marketing move on your behalf.
Also, for the regular computer screen. You may have talked to Rantz Hoseley about the Longbox project. I really hope you did, because that programme is going to destroy everything else!
Rebellion own clickwheel and presumably see 2000ad as the main prop that holds it up. I think it unlikely for the moment that they'll put Twoth and the Meg on other platforms as that would almost certainly spell the long slow doom of clickwheel.
Of course, realistically Clickwheel is likely to go that way anyway without other USPs. Given the possibility of Twoth material finding a larger worldwide market through these other suppliers it might be a difficult decision to make, but in my opinion it's necessary. If clickwheel is good enough and has enough stuff on it, it'll float.
Ahhhhhhhhh, I had no idea that they owned it. Yeah, doubt that they will shift to another platform them. Shame really, it's an OK service, but very few people have ever heard of it. Maybe if they'd promoted it a bit better...
Click wheel
i have tried so many times to get this to work.
but have failed,
i gave up in the end. which is shame as the concept is great, i have several other download comics and enjoy them on my Itouch.
its just not user friendly enough.
how hard can it be? download YES! see it in your itunes library.
Well Tharg's web-bots don't just look after this place, they're also caretakers on the Clickwheel site, I'm sure one of them would be happy to give you a hand with your problems, PM one of them (if it's the wrong one, they'll just forward the info onto someone who CAN help).
Shame it's all about the apple, that's my only problem with the whole thing.
To get Clickwheel and to post on this forum (which explains the flurries of activities then months of absence), I have to use Hotspot Shield to disguise my IP address. It might be 'coz I spend half the year in Africa or some limiting feature of Egypt's internet (works fine when I'm in the UK).