North Wind è una serie a fumetti (cinque gli episodi in programma) pubblicata dai BOOM! Studios in collaborazione con MySpace e messa a disposizione in rete – contemporamente all’uscita dei singoli albi – per essere letta online o per essere scaricata (qui il primo episodio). “Un’interessante approccio alla distribuzione digitale”, si legge nella pagina di presentazione, e Cory Doctorow, commentando la scelta su BoingBoing, aggiunge:

Yes, a few cheapskates might opt to substitute downloads for singles. But those cheapskates are likely either retired people, students, or other people of limited means — and if they come into money (say, by graduating and getting a job), they’ll be back with their wallets. In the meantime, it’s not as if the people who buy their issues in Mylar bags are going to give up on collecting — Action Comics #1 has been floating around online since the mid-Nineties and the value of the physical object hasn’t dropped as a result.