It's finally happened, after reading 2000AD for 18 years none stop I've totally ran out of space to store my progs and the only way to continue with my weekly dose of thrill-power (other than kick the wife and all of her stuff out, something I have considered :lol:) is to make the switch to digital. And with next week's prog being a new jumping on point now seems like the perfect time.
I've a couple of questions for those of you that have made the plunge though:
I'm thinking of buying through the 2000AD app on my iPad, this is where I plan to read my prog most weeks but would this link to my account on the 2000AD store for the off chance I can't read the prog on my iPad? I'm basically wondering if it's a universal account that all my digital purchases are linked to or is it split between devices/ accounts? Kind of future-proofing myself for if I ever decide to switch tablet devices.
If I buy straight from the store what's the best method of getting the prog on my iPad? I know you can't just download .pdf's straight to the iPad (or if you can I haven't figured out how) so what's the best way to do it?
Lastly; how about billing? Obviously if I buy off the store I'll get billed straight away like normal but how about through the app? Will the payment come straight out of my account like off the store or would it be included in my monthly apple bill?
Cheers for the help folks :)
Hey Dodsy. I've recently gone digital myself and there's some pretty useful advice on this thread (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,39997.0.html). To try and answer your other questions.
- The app is completely separate from the store and purchases are independent. The app can only be used to read Progs you've bought via the app and those Progs can't (easily) be extracted to read elsewhere.
- Files can be downloaded to your iPad just by accessing your store account or email directly on the tablet's browser. If you have a comic reader app associated with the file type, it should import it automatically.
- Clickwheel is the best option. Same files as the app and shop, but issues are significantly cheaper.
- Not 1005 sure about billing.
Like Cosh says, the iPad App and the 2000AD Future Shop eShop are two totally different services (and Clickwheel is another, separate 3rd service)
The App has the benefit of subscriptions, subscription rates, and its comics will automatically download as soon as they are available. App billing depends on your sub. I belive they do Monthly, Six-Months, and Yearly billing. Its automatic through whatever billing set up you have through iTunes.
The store has the benefit of giving you DRM-Free files of your choice (either PDF or CBZ/ZIP) for personal back-ups. Which will 'future-proof' your files (though it is possibly to get the iPad App files out with a program called iExplorer, as the app files are just PDFs)
I can't tell you much about Clickwheel, but I do know you can get PDF or CBZ/ZIP files from it. I'm not sure about subscriptions, or if it's app has a built in comic reader.
Personally I use the Digital eShop, download the CBZ file, back it up locally, upload a copy to Dropbox (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8) (probably the most important PC program and mobile app you can ever have), and then download the file to my iPad, and read it in ComicZeal (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comic-zeal-comic-reader/id363990983?mt=8). I originally used the 2000AD iOS app for 2013, but got annoyed with the fact that I didn't have a file type choice (not a fan of PDF). And figured paying a little more for convenience wasn't that big a deal.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 19 March, 2014, 06:35:37 PM
I can't tell you much about Clickwheel, but I do know you can get PDF or CBZ/ZIP files from it. I'm not sure about subscriptions, or if it's app has a built in comic reader
I subscribe digitally through Clickwheel (https://www.clickwheel.net/features/219). £62 per year, you can have the prog in CBZ
and PDF format (no need to choose one or the other), if you lose your files you can go back and download them again as many times as you need, and you can do whatever you want with the files once you've downloaded them.
Does Clickwheel have an reader built into its app (I'm pretty sure it has an iOS app)? Or is it just for buying the files?
Quote from: The Adventurer on 19 March, 2014, 06:49:56 PM
Does Clickwheel have an reader built into its app (I'm pretty sure it has an iOS app)? Or is it just for buying the files?
I don't have an ipad, but the bumph at the front of the site tells you you'll need a comic book reader: https://www.clickwheel.net/dashboard