[egypturnash]

I make comics, put 'em on the web for free, and occasionally print books. I was gonna say I have pretty much the same problem as you do.

And hell, you and I are competing for the same resource: people's time and attention to give to our little package of artistic effort.

So far the solution in comics seems to be "oh i know i'll make another damn portal, or another damn hosting site", which I'm pretty meh on.

[erik]

I've seen several attempts to do the same thing with games. Introduce another site, or another portal, and hope to drive discoverability through it. But the audience has no incentive to visit your portal.

In games, Steam and the app stores are so critical because they have a massive audience that already have accounts that can make payments with minimum friction.