No more in-app purchases for Comixology? At first I didn’t care, because I always purchsed my Comixology comics through my local comic book store’s website (that way a local shop gets a cut of my purchase). But there is bad news behind Amazon killing in-app purchases on the popular comics reading app. It signals that […]
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ComiXology and Washington Post mashup
Today Amazon bought the #1 digital comic book seller, ComiXology. Last year Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, bought the 7th largest newspaper The Washington Post. Hmm. Digital comics. Digital newspaper. Bezos should totally do a mashup with ComiXology and The Washington Post. While I wouldn’t want to read the Washington Post in my Comixology app, […]
Digital comics war heats up
This is the most hilarious thing all month! I think it might take the cake for funniest thing I’ve seen so far all of 2013! The 80s-style story of two gangs fighting it out also provides such a great backdrop to this gag. This is sorta like the music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I […]
New comic initiatives: Comics Accelerator, Diamond Digital, Digital Comics Reader, Cyber Force Kickstarter, Comics Plus
Comic Book Resources touched on a few new and ongoing digital comics projects in their article, CCI: New frontiers for iVerse’s digital comics. Comics Accelerator The Comics Accelerator sounds cool for how you can buy a comics in kickstarter-style, AND there is no DRM. However, the site looks WAY too much like Kickstarter. I’d imagine […]