I talked to Comixology CEO David Steinberger this morning, and he told me that this service was “designed from the ground up to increase the amount of people reading and engaging with comics.” This is what makes this service different from what Marvel offers: It’s designed for discovery of new comics, not for binges through the massive catalogs of long-running series. Invincible has produced 128 issues, but only the first eight are on Unlimited.
Note: This story has not been updated for several years.ĭan beat me to it, but I want to add a little more about Comixology Unlimited, the $6/month subscription service announced today.Ĭomixology Unlimited’s catalog doesn’t really offer lengthy runs of dozens of issues as Marvel’s subscription service does. Meanwhile, the ComiXology titles can already be viewed in the Kindle library, which makes it easy to download and view the comics on a big screen as well if you so wish to.Comixology Unlimited: More about discovery than binging The Kindle app has also been enhanced to show the panel-by-panel ‘Guided View’.Īlso, while it is still possible to download DRM-free comics from ComiXology, that would change once all of it migrates to an Amazon site or app. There is a FAQ page that aims to help users migrate to the Kindle app and view comics. The ComiXology app is going to be retired soon and will be fully integrated into the main Kindle app for Android and iOS.
That said, a ComiXology blog post did mention there are some changes expected in early-2022 while the company’s login page too is asking members to merge their accounts with the Amazon account. No date has been fixed, as yet and according to The Register, the ComiXology app still can be downloaded and used to read comics via it. Among the changes forthcoming include a general ban on the download of DRM-free comics, apart from the ComiXology app itself getting integrated into the Kindle app.
ComiXology may have had an independent existence even after being acquired by Amazon eight years ago, but all of that is set to change.
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