Amazon buys popular comic book app platform Comixology
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Comixolgy is a cool app but their prices seem pretty high to a comic book novice like myself. I was never in to them as a kid and The Walking Dead is the only series I have really read as an adult. I read Compendium 1 which consists of the first 48 issues on my iPad and I have been looking for a decent price on Compendium 2. The iBooks store has it for $39.99 which seems expensive until you check prices elsewhere.
Comixology and the Amazon kindle store don't even sell a digital version of the compendiums. Amazon has it in paperback for $35 but I would rather have it on my iPad. I priced out the volumes containing the same issues as compendium 2 on Comixology and it would cost me $119.92 to get an equivalent package to what iBooks is selling for $39.99.
My roommate from my college days is a huge comic book fan and he swears by Comixology. He buys several books a month from them and is already upset that Amazon bought them out. I had no idea that a comic book habit was so expensive until I started looking into this stuff. Maybe this Amazon purchase will actually bring prices down like their kindle store did for regular books.
Comixology and the Amazon kindle store don't even sell a digital version of the compendiums. Amazon has it in paperback for $35 but I would rather have it on my iPad. I priced out the volumes containing the same issues as compendium 2 on Comixology and it would cost me $119.92 to get an equivalent package to what iBooks is selling for $39.99.
My roommate from my college days is a huge comic book fan and he swears by Comixology. He buys several books a month from them and is already upset that Amazon bought them out. I had no idea that a comic book habit was so expensive until I started looking into this stuff. Maybe this Amazon purchase will actually bring prices down like their kindle store did for regular books.
Comixology is much more widespread and overall a better experience than other apps (outside of downright pirating the comics themselves), excited to see this become part of the Amazon family.
