Why the hate? Are you afraid that somebody would *gasp* think of them as real literature?

Yes, of course the 'Graphic Novels' are comics too, but all comics aren't graphic novels. A comic collecting newspaper strips from say, Calvin and Hobbes, is hardly a graphic novel. On the other hand comics such as Watchmen, Sandman or many others are clearly full independent 'long and complex narratives', 'graphic novels' if you like. Or do you feel the same way with the term 'Novel', when they could just as well be called books?

The Paper Cartoon comment is borderline insulting. It's almost as suggesting we drop the word 'Novel' and start using 'Crime fiction' for all books...

Oh? I like the VLC UI. I usually use VLC to watch video files, I don't really tend to focus on admiring the frames around it. Sure, if you need it to do something complicated it's not that easy, but how often do you really need more than pause / seek when watching movies?

So, you get the game but you can not play the game unless you connect to Steam with the same account as you got the game with. Still no playing without Steam, no lending the game. If it looks like DRM, smells like DRM and quacks like DRM it probably is DRM, even if the salesman calls it CEG.

And if there was no Internet or TV some kids would still get hurt, and a house or two would still get set on fire. Children play, accidents happen, but does any modern media really increase the amount of mishaps at all? Somehow I doubt it.

So, let me get this straight. You are comparing the work for a full reinstall with all the bells and whistles with full data recovery to a cost of a new computer without reinstalling the previously installed software and user data? Just the OS installing should take less than an hour, and if any tech tries to charge $500 for 1 hours work, I would just laugh them out.

I do interpret this post as either an attempt at being funny, or just being a troll, but seems it's being taken seriously, hence the 'serious' answer.

Snippet from blog about this (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=92159514&blogID=328322464):

Are new books going to be showing up as they're published?

John Dokes: Not as they're published. There's probably going to be about a six-month lag between the time a book appears in print and the time it appears in this service. In some cases, we will have books that are more recent than that, but that will be specifically promoting what's happening in the print books.

So, digital media will be there 6 months after the comics, with current release schedules that's around the time the trade paperbacks are already out. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to torrents for new releases and albums for the good ones.