This looks like a cool feature but I will always prefer to read a real comic over a PC/Web-based or PSP comic. There’s just something much more enjoyable about actually holding it while you read it.

It certainly would make me want to carry around my PSP with me more often.

The PSP has a really sharp screen, so this could work well for comics formatted specifically for it.
Will Sony start their own digital publishing arm to maintain control over as many facets of the business as they can? That’s their usual approach to things. I can’t imagine most comic companies or creators would bend over backwards for them, but there’s probably a compromise somewhere.

That would be nice, since I have a PSP and use it everywhere. I still think the PSP is a better IPOD. So being able to read comic in my PSP would be nice. I don’t like digital comics mostly because I don’t want to sit in front of the PC to read comics. But on my PSP I can read them anywhere, and I don’t want to invest on a kindle. As the other comment said. Still I prefer to read a paper comic.This way comics would cease to be collectible. It would help induestry to get comics to more people, since you could simply copy/paste the file, but they would not be collectible anymore.

You could always read comics on the PSP. You just need to scan the pages as HQ JPGs, number them, and put each issue in a folder in your PSP’s Photo folder. There have also been a couple of homebrew apps made in the past couple of years, with PSP Comic being the one I’ve heard of the most. But homebrewing is for those more adventurous than me.

PSP Comic on YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_HEI718ae8

Who the hell would waste their time scanning printed comics just to put them on a handheld?

The collector in me wants paper comics. The pragmatist in me wants an easy way to view digital comics.

“Yowza Says: Who the hell would waste their time scanning printed comics just to put them on a handheld?”

The same who would convert videos to mp4s, and music to mp3s…in order to play movies, TV shows, and music on the PSP, and take it anywhere.

I can’t complain about any device getting the ability to read digital comics, but I’d think the screens on the PSP and iPhone are too small for full-blown comic book reading.

I think Digital Comics are the future. That said I think Apple with get there first. With the larger Ipod Touch next year and the doubtless 3rd gen iPhone coming.

I downloaded the Kindle for iPhone app last night and was amazed how clear it is. Add images to that and you’re really utilizing the amazing screen on the iPhone.

People have been asking for years how you get the Video Game generation interested in comics? This is a start.

Our comics are on the iPhone right now and doing awesomely! Search “keenspot” in the App Store to check them out.

Blah! What would be ideal is a full colour, high resolution CBR/CBZ e-reader that makes full use of paper-thin, flexible screen technology. The Sony PSP is for kids no matter how much spin you put on it, I don’t want to be reading, for exemplar, Spawn: Architect of Fear, on a childish, portable games console. I’d look like a complete fool in public, or maybe that’s just me. In any case, the Sony PSP’s screen is much too small and it appears as though you’d have to flick through the individual comic ‘slots’, if you will, one by one which isn’t really appealing. The advantages of legally distributed digital comics would include easier access to backcatalogues, the potential to entice more people into reading comics which would be advantageous to the producers themselves, it would naturally be environmentally friendly as clearly no trees would be needed for production and it would save consumers a whole lot of space and make it very convenient for them to carry their whole comic collection around with them anywhere. The unfortunate drawbacks would be that the prospect of collecting comic-books would be no more* [*,however, the creators could make paper-only, special edition series' yearly] and piracy could seize the market if the proper regulations aren’t put into place and a large proportion of comic-book artists could be made redundant although I don’t think that’s likely as it would probably be a transitionary development. I think it’s a bit dogmatic and stubborn of paper-comic collectors to be completely against digital comics. Concept-to-production times would also be vastly reduced as I’d imagine that it’s quicker to work on Adobe Photoshop or any other similar program if you’re a professional when designing a comic than it is to do it manually without any digital tools. It makes perfect sense. The companies could have unique, encrypted activation codes for the comics that you’d receive by e-mail so that piracy would be non-existent. Hey, wait a minute! Am I a genius? Seriously though, I truly believe this is the way to go.

Sound effect rather. Hmm, yessss, sound effects as opposed to voice actors reading out scripts would be a nice touch.