It is, but I think the worst ingredient in it is the central planning aspect. There's something to be said about allowing natural divergence instead.





That's completely true, I've seen that people are getting smaller and smaller subscriptions (aka pull lists) at comic stores. That also implies that the more peripheral titles - i.e. not Batman or Superman or X-Men etc are going to hurt most.





That all depends on how they treat e-comics. Apple succeeded in selling digital music only because they priced individual songs at a very attractive rate. If they would have sold the same music but forced people to buy the entire album (like CDs), it never would have taken off.

Likewise, if e-comics cost the same as paper copies or more, people are going to hesitate. If they sell by subscription-only (like some magazines) they aren't going to sell many. If they price it attractively enough, some people might be tempted to get one paper copy and one digital copy so they have one to collect (paper) and one to read (digital) at a savings over buying two paper copies.