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Today on iPhone

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Apple has chosen IDW’s Transformers comic as a top app for the day. A check of the iTunes store’s book ranking shows that Transformers-related material is doing quite well.
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This is not a fad.

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11 Responses to “Today on iPhone”

  1. Matt Maxwell Says:
    06/18/09 at 2:25 pm

    Total fad. Dead trees forever!

  2. Charles Knight Says:
    06/18/09 at 2:26 pm

    How many copies do the paper versions of Transformers sell? Is it possible that more people read it on their ipods/iphones than physically?

  3. Torsten Adair Says:
    06/18/09 at 2:29 pm

    The Transformers are bigger than God.

  4. Synsidar Says:
    06/18/09 at 2:50 pm

    How many copies do the paper versions of Transformers sell?

    From ICv2:

    162 TRANSFORMERS ALL HAIL MEGATRON #10 12,183
    175 TRANSFORMERS REVENGE FALLEN MOVIE PRQ DEFIANCE #4 10,196
    176 TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT DRIFT 10,065
    179 TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT JAZZ 9,855
    198 TRANSFORMERS MAXIMUM DINOBOTS #4 8,688
    202 TRANSFORMERS MAXIMUM DINOBOTS #5 8,499

    SRS

  5. Phil Says:
    06/18/09 at 3:18 pm

    Transformers Spotlight Jazz sells 9855 copies!
    Wow what a time to be alive.

  6. rich Says:
    06/18/09 at 11:03 pm

    Well … Transformers has always been more “media” than mere comic books. Naturally, many people will read it like this because the people reading it probably aren’t comic fans. They’ll read it once, and forget all about it, much like when they watch the cartoons or movies.

  7. Digital Strips: The Webcomics Podcast : Left to our own devices: International edition Says:
    06/19/09 at 11:14 am

    […] Speaking of which, Transformers comics were the top app of the day in Apple’s iTunes store yesterday, and Heidi MacDonald takes a snapshot of the day’s ratings, which show 10 Transformers apps in the top 20. Who do they think they are, Naruto? In the comments section, someone wonders if more people aren’t reading Transformers on iPhones than on paper; statistics are brandished about. […]

  8. JC Lebourdais Says:
    06/19/09 at 12:30 pm

    What is Shazam Entertainment Ltd?

  9. Synsidar Says:
    06/19/09 at 12:45 pm

    What is Shazam Entertainment Ltd?

    Shazam!

  10. JM Ringuet Says:
    06/22/09 at 10:03 am

    It is not a fad, indeed.

    And yes hopefully it’s attracting other people than just comic fans.

  11. JM Ringuet Says:
    06/22/09 at 10:08 am

    And I also have a comic coming on Iphone hopefully end of this month, completely free. It’s called ‘Stolen Suns’ and it’s a gothic soap opera or maybe a mystical supernatural journey, and there’s a preview at: www.stolensuns.blogspot.com

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