I actually think that Brian Heater has a strong point. Desktops and laptops are the standard internet browsers these days, but the trend looks to be headed toward smaller and smaller devices, such as the smartphones and the smaller laptops. Webcomics are the sort of entertainment that looks to be best read on such devices — maybe on the bus or while waiting for the plane. You know, the same locations as where you would normally have read a magazine, newspaper, or paperback.

I personally don’t think we’ve reached that day yet, but I do think it is coming. Remember when having a screen on your phone was a relatively novel device? It wasn’t that too long ago; maybe less than a decade. Now it’s a standard feature. Today, the smartphones are only starting to show up in the market. They’re toys now, but they might become the standard format for phones in a few years. So what happend if the day comes where the majority of internet users are using hand-held devices? Shouldn’t webcomics adapt?

(And as I mentioned in the “Set To Sea” review, a lot of current webcomics are difficult to read on the iPhone/iPod Touch.)

Then again, no one can really predict the future. Maybe smartphones are simply a passing fad, and we’ll be lugging around super-lightweight laptops in the future. Who knows.

I would enjoy hearing more explanation of how that’s supposed to happen, or is the comment tongue-in-cheek?

We’ve had a nice tutorial for formatting by Rob Berry up for almost a year on Psychedelic Treehouse, and I haven’t heard any success stories. The address is http://www.psychedelictreehouse.com/monetizing-10.php

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