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Amazon Buying Comixology

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  • luke52luke52 Posts: 1,392

    luke52 said:

    How long until AutoRip for trades!?!?!?

    Two things there... 1. When you go to purchase a trade, you get the additional option to get it digitally, for little or no cost.

    And/or... 2. Any trades you've already ever purchased at Amazon it will give you the digital version absolutely free (they do this for "books" now).
    I hope both.
  • mwhitt80mwhitt80 Posts: 4,637
    @nweathington‌

    If you have an idea that you can sell and make real money on the deal you need to go for it. I'll never hate on anyone that makes honest money. Like I said get that Bezos money (especially if you have an idea that can be copied or improved on by Amazon).
  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,748
    mwhitt80 said:

    @nweathington‌

    If you have an idea that you can sell and make real money on the deal you need to go for it. I'll never hate on anyone that makes honest money. Like I said get that Bezos money (especially if you have an idea that can be copied or improved on by Amazon).

    I certainly don’t begrudge the Comixology folks for selling to Amazon, @mwhitt80. They're doing what they feel is in their best interest, and I can’t blame them for doing so, especially since it probably (not necessarily, but most probably) is in their best interest. I just don’t think if it will end up being in the best long-term interests of the industry at large. Time will tell.
  • CaptShazamCaptShazam Posts: 1,178

    mwhitt80 said:

    I don't know how this is going to play out, but I'm glad the Comixology investors are getting that Bezos money. Good for them.

    I think Diamond will be out of business within the next five to eight years, and we'll be back to one distributor: Amazon. I hope I'm wrong.
    What if Amazon bought Diamond? Hmmm....
  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,748

    mwhitt80 said:

    I don't know how this is going to play out, but I'm glad the Comixology investors are getting that Bezos money. Good for them.

    I think Diamond will be out of business within the next five to eight years, and we'll be back to one distributor: Amazon. I hope I'm wrong.
    What if Amazon bought Diamond? Hmmm....
    They'd be throwing money away. Amazon already has a much more efficient and effective distribution network in place than Diamond. The only thing they’d get out of it is a (relatively) few brick-and-mortar store accounts which they don’t want and Diamond’s “expertise,” which I doubt they want either, since Diamond’s expertise is in a slowly dying distribution system.


  • I'm already tied into Amazon for my books, audiobooks (via Audible), music and video content. I own a Fire, which I bought primarily for using Comixology. If I were Apple-centric, I don't know that I'd be as happy about this.

    Audible has been an Amazon subsidiary for a long time, and it seems to have changed things very little. I was using them when Amazon bought them, and it's been fine.

    Honestly, the biggest thing I hope to gain from this is that maybe Dark Horse puts their books on Comixology. It's a continual irritation to me to have my Dark Horse books stranded on their inferior proprietary app, and this just makes their stubbornness about it seem all the more stupid.
  • I'm already tied into Amazon for my books, audiobooks (via Audible), music and video content. I own a Fire, which I bought primarily for using Comixology. If I were Apple-centric, I don't know that I'd be as happy about this.

    Isn't there a Kindle e-reading (books) app available at the iStore?
  • Isn't there a Kindle e-reading (books) app available at the iStore?

    Yes, but you can't make purchases in it. It's essentially just a reader, not the full app.
  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131

    Isn't there a Kindle e-reading (books) app available at the iStore?

    Yes, but you can't make purchases in it. It's essentially just a reader, not the full app.
    But there is also an Amazon app where you could make a purchase and then it will push the content to your main device (Kindle or iPad/iPhone) or even all.
  • fredzilla said:

    Isn't there a Kindle e-reading (books) app available at the iStore?

    Yes, but you can't make purchases in it. It's essentially just a reader, not the full app.
    But there is also an Amazon app where you could make a purchase and then it will push the content to your main device (Kindle or iPad/iPhone) or even all.
    I can purchase everything but kindle e-books through the Amazon iOS app. I still have to go through the browser. Because Apple is a jerkface.
  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131

    fredzilla said:

    Isn't there a Kindle e-reading (books) app available at the iStore?

    Yes, but you can't make purchases in it. It's essentially just a reader, not the full app.
    But there is also an Amazon app where you could make a purchase and then it will push the content to your main device (Kindle or iPad/iPhone) or even all.
    I can purchase everything but kindle e-books through the Amazon iOS app. I still have to go through the browser. Because Apple is a jerkface.
    Huh. Maybe that's how I've done it before... *shruggs shoulders*
  • bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    Jersen said:

    That puts even more power behind ComiXology, and even thought I'm a guy that's pretty adamantly about owning physical copies of comic books, this just seems like it will open doors to easy accessibility of issues/stories that enthusiasts (not necessarily collectors) would like to have.

    If this is something that ties into Amazon Prime and you could borrow books through the app and read them, Kindle sales would go through the roof!
    David_D said:

    This shows how big digital comics already are, and will continue to be.

    I believe (or at least I hope) this is a good sign for the longevity (and diversity of publisher and genre in) the medium of comics.

    Amazon is smart money. And this is the smart money saying- in a world where there are all sorts of content to pick from- that comics are worth investing in.

    A lot of people that would have NEVER hunted down the Comixology app will now be exposed to comic books, so this is win-win for everyone. I don't know what sort of deal Comixology made, but their platform could also be used with magazines, periodicals, etc. and now that they're becoming a subsidiary of Amazon, this will also mean that creators will most likely be paid more quickly too.

    For example, I'm not sure where I had heard this, but in an interview with Larime Taylor (A Voice in the Dark), he was saying he was still 5 issues into his run with Comixology and still had no idea what kind of numbers the books were doing. With this coupling with Amazon, this problem should be eliminated.

    I think @David_D said it best; "Well. I think we just got our biggest comics news story of the year. "
  • I was just interested in buying multiple issues, and went to both Amazon and Comixology, and Comixology was easier to put into a cart and purchase.
  • GregGreg Posts: 1,946
    edited April 2014
    Nevermind. Nothing to see here. Carry on.
  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,748
    Update on Comixology cutting Apple and Google out of the mix—an altogether unsurprising development.
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