Spinwhiz Will Soon Offer An Entire Comic Book Library - For Free
That community presence is significant, because unlike other digital comics platforms Spinwhiz will not curate individual. "We're not going have a team in the future that tells you what's good and what's not," Palumbo explained. "It's completely community-driven. So we'll actually give the community the ability to thumbs-up whatever they want." At the same time, Palumbo wants to have tools in place to ensure the system can't be abused by trolls - which is why Spinwhiz will not have a "Thumbs-Down" review option.
"The reason for that is for indie comics, sometimes they're the the only one," Palumbo said. "You might put everything in one comic hoping it does well and - I don't know if you know this or not - but the internet is full of trolls that literally just want to destroy dreams... Just rip it apart regardless of whether they like it or not. So we've taken that ability away from them."
In the meantime, Palumbo doesn't consider Spinwhiz Comics to be something that competes with other comics publishers. In fact, it's his strong hope that companies like Image, Boom!, or IDW will add their collections to his own. "I want all those guys with us eventually, because it doesn't cost them anything," he noted. "They have libraries full of old content they could be making money off of... that are just sitting there collecting dust."
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Palumbo's current plan is to run a Spinwhiz Comics publisher beta in the next two weeks, with a user beta following shortly after. Once all that's finished, the website should be ready for a mid-May launch - at which point Palumbo will start presenting big names already attached to the project. From there, he hopes Spinwhiz Comics will get even bigger.
"The goal is to basically have everybody on this platform in the next year... Hey there's no reason why [publishers] shouldn't do this. It's free, it's easy, everything's drag-and-drop it just takes 15 minutes to create a title... why not?" Palumbo concluded. "And hopefully I make everyone a ton of money. That would be great."
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"The reason for that is for indie comics, sometimes they're the the only one," Palumbo said. "You might put everything in one comic hoping it does well and - I don't know if you know this or not - but the internet is full of trolls that literally just want to destroy dreams... Just rip it apart regardless of whether they like it or not. So we've taken that ability away from them."
In the meantime, Palumbo doesn't consider Spinwhiz Comics to be something that competes with other comics publishers. In fact, it's his strong hope that companies like Image, Boom!, or IDW will add their collections to his own. "I want all those guys with us eventually, because it doesn't cost them anything," he noted. "They have libraries full of old content they could be making money off of... that are just sitting there collecting dust."
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Palumbo's current plan is to run a Spinwhiz Comics publisher beta in the next two weeks, with a user beta following shortly after. Once all that's finished, the website should be ready for a mid-May launch - at which point Palumbo will start presenting big names already attached to the project. From there, he hopes Spinwhiz Comics will get even bigger.
"The goal is to basically have everybody on this platform in the next year... Hey there's no reason why [publishers] shouldn't do this. It's free, it's easy, everything's drag-and-drop it just takes 15 minutes to create a title... why not?" Palumbo concluded. "And hopefully I make everyone a ton of money. That would be great."
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