9/1/2023 0 Comments Comixology and kindleAnd it’s so, so much worse than you could possibly have anticipated. Yet this week, with a staggered rollout of an update to the Comixology app, all that changed. Though Amazon bought Comixology way back in 2014, they have kept a generally hands-off approach, letting Comixology do its thing in continuing to provide standard setting features and benefits for digital comics fans. It was clearly an app with functionality by fans, for fans. Grouping comics into various series and keeping track of what could be a messy library was also a cinch, with plenty of features and options that made sense for comic book fans. A deal to offer up 700 Marvel Comics for free crashed its servers, while a recent data breach forced its customers to change their passwords.For more than a decade, the Comixology app has enabled me to conveniently keep up with reading a vast array of comic books not just providing an easy way to find new releases from various publishers, but also making them easy to read across a wide range of devices and screen sizes with the excellent panel to panel reading formats. The company has found itself in hot water in other ways, too. However, Comixology has a reputation for withholding some comics from its store that other digital retailers will publish, based on the content of the books, particularly those that have been labeled as not suitable for children. Gross sales of Comixology's iPad app placed it in the top 10 in 20, and made it the No. David Naggar, Amazon's vice president of content acquisition and independent publishing, said in a statement that both companies are invested in "reinventing reading in a digital world."Ĭomixology's fortunes rose quickly thanks to a dearth of digital marketplaces for comics, a big launch on the first iPad, and its patented technology for Guided View, a tap-to-read method for advancing from panel to panel in digital comics.
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