The dedicated Comxiology website is closing down, with the digital comics purchasing experience moving over to Amazon. It’s no wonder that Amazon acquired it in 2014.Įver since that acquisition, there was always a chance that Comixology could be incorporated into the Amazon ecosystem. It was also an innovator in the reading experience, making it easy to read purchases over multiple devices with a range of purpose-built tools. Through that time, it went on to have the largest selection of comics, graphic novels, and manga from a wide range of publishers and indie creators. It will be updated as soon as more information comes to light.Ĭomixology started as an online community for comic book readers in 2007 and grew to become the one-stop shop for digital comics. Soon purchasing is going to move to your friendly neighbourhood Amazon site, or within Amazon's fondleslab apps, and for new purchases made there, ComiXology's own DRM-free downloads are going away.Note: This guide is based on things that are still ongoing.

Many did, and customers could download their purchases from those companies in PDF or CBX format, without copy-protection or Digital Rights Management.įor now, you can still do this, and if you have a significant library, we suggest that you do so PDQ. The more significant change, though, is that the company used to offer direct comics downloads from their website – at least, as long as the publisher agreed.

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One small reassurance is that the Kindle app has now gained ComiXology's panel-by-panel 'Guided View.' Ominously, though, the login page urges customers to merge their accounts with their Amazon accounts, and the blog warns that the company's own app will be going away soon, linking to an FAQ page on how to access and read ComiXology purchases in the Kindle app.

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