Using Gumroad for Digital Downloads

When I started offering Digital Downloads of the upcoming month's worth of comic strips for Evil Inc, I handled it entirely through Paypal. I enabled micropayments on PayPal, and get up "Buy It Now" buttons that accepted the payment and then deposited the user to a page that I had set up to facilitate the download.

Piracy-proof, it wasn't. But that being said, I haven't seen any significant signs of piracy.

But I wanted to start experimenting with a little more efficient way of handling the transaction, so I foundGumroad through an endorsement of a respected webcartoonist.

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NCS Announces Divisional Award Nominees

The National Cartoonist Society has announced nominees for their Divisional Awards for 2013. Two categories are particularly significant for this audience:

Digital Downloads -- Finding the Right Price

I started experimenting with offering my comics as a digital-download pre-release a year ago in April. Since then I've posted some periodic updates as to my progress. I've discussed:

• An overview of my Monthly Digital Download "Pre-Release" concept
• Tracking your downloads using Google Analytics
• Addressing the Kindle Fire market
• Adjusting PayPal for Micropayments
• Setting a price point
• Using a mailing list to announce updates
• Using the Amazon Associates Program to recoup some of Amazon's cut
• Naming the download

Having reached the one-year mark, I'm ready to take what I've learned so far and experiment further.

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Stop Giving 'Em The Finger

I've got a comics pet peeve that's been driving me crazy lately, and this seems like a good place to vent my spleen.

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The Next Hot Seat

What would you like the next Hot Seat critique series to focus on?

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