Take Your Favorite Archie Comics Everywhere You Go With Digital Comics for PSP

MAMARONECK, NY--(Marketwire - September 1, 2009) - Sony Computer Entertainment America recently announced the digital reader for PSP (PlayStation Portable), a new PlayStation Network service that will allow PSP owners to access a range of media on their PSP. The digital reader service will be launched with Digital Comics this December, putting PSP owners in control of a huge library of Digital Comics.

Archie Comics digital publishing partner iVerse Media will be adapting Archie Comics to fit this new digital medium. This is not a re-purposing of the material already available. These will be all new images prepared in Sony's proprietary system. Instead of viewing comics frame by frame, the PSP will bring the full page to the users who will be able to move around the page using the PSP controller. When the system is up and running, you will be able to pick up Archie Comics at any Wi-Fi hotspot.

According to iVerse's Michael Murphy, "We are working on reformatting the Archie Comics in our digital library into the new PSP format. We will have all the Archie titles in our library available at the PlayStation Store when the comic store is launched in December."

Archie Comics co-CEO Jon Goldwater stated, "We are excited to be part of PlayStation's Digital Comics launch. Archie Comics was part of the launch of the Direct Market and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to get Archie Comics into the hands of our fans."

The Archie Comics line of comic books is one of the most successful and longest running lines in the history of the comic industry. Archie is published in a dozen different foreign languages and distributed all over the world. Archie Comics has not only spawned characters whose popularity has spilled over into other media but who have become part of popular American culture. The characters of Archie Comics have also found success on the Internet, at www.archiecomics.com and available digitally at www.archiedigital.com.