They’re available here, under “Your Comixology Books.” However, while subscription services work well, the Comixology situation’s made me more reluctant to ever spend another dime on buying digital comics with DRM. What Comixology comics I do have, I’ve already downloaded their DRM-free versions I advise everyone to do so as soon as possible. Most of my digital comic reading’s been from the public library or subscription services. Users could switch to a different store, or different comic reading app. Still, if all of Comixology’s comics were DRM-free, it wouldn’t matter much what Amazon did with the site. and Disney respectively), and likely never will. DC and Marvel, of course, never offered DRM-free comics (being owned by Warner Bros. Unfortunately, they’ve removed that feature with the shift to Amazon’s main site. The old Comixology site offered DRM-free downloads for most of its non-DC/Marvel titles (in CBZ and PDF formats). On the sole positive note, it might lead to a boost in traffic for webcomics: Webtoon is a popular app, webcomics are free, and they have fewer obnoxious barriers.Īll of this also points out the downsides of digital rights management (DRM) being applied to digital comics. At worst, Amazon’s changes might end up either leading to a boost in piracy or discourage people from reading comics altogether (especially if they don’t want to buy paper comics). A very amateurish thing to do, and a big sign Amazon doesn’t seem to care about usability. Amazon didn’t even redirect any links for individual Comixology books to their Kindle site versions they now just redirect to the default Comixology page, breaking all of them. Even the mobile apps have lost some functionality, and taken on more Kindle app-like traits.Īs such, Comixology is now much less user-friendly. Most of the comics-oriented features have been stripped out of the site the Kindle web reader is now used for reading comics, with little comics-oriented customizing. I’ve written previously about what happened however, to summarize, Comixology is now a glorified subcategory of the Kindle section of Amazon. The biggest comics news as of this writing is Amazon folding Comixology into its main website.
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