and the UK may not be able to access ComiXology, as they will be required to make their purchases through their local Amazon store. Perhaps the most major disappointment with the update is the availability. If this indeed happens, it would be a blow to the comics publishing industry. Since the update, ComiXology stopped allowing DRM-free downloads for new purchases.Ĭonsequently, Twitters users expressed concern about the possibility that the changes might push readers to go back to pirating comics. There’s also a bad news for future digital comic readers.īefore Amazon’s aggressive push to integrate its services, some titles on ComiXology were DRM-free, allowing users to save PDF or CBZ files and take them locally. The panel view feature stayed, but upon tapping on a scene, it doesn’t zoom in. This is not ideal, as Kindle Cloud Reader lacks basic features like zoom, guided view, and two-page spread. Users now have to read via Kindle Cloud Reader, as the native ComiXology web reader is gone. Reading on desktop, meanwhile, has become impossible. On Kindle Unlimited, there are only 5,000 titles available, including ComiXology Originals comics. In addition, ComiXology Unlimited obviously has a wider selection of comics titles. The former is only available in the United States, whereas the latter is offered in several marketplaces. Indeed, the only two things that differentiate ComiXology Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited now are accessibility and catalog size. What’s more, ComiXology Unlimited, the flagship subscription service, is also available on Kindle apps and on, which means that readers can access them on those services. With the update, Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited members can now read their borrowed titles inside the new ComiXology app. For starters, there’s already an existing Kindle Unlimited that also offers comics (one would be forgiven for thinking that Amazon is competing with itself). Amazon also integrated its existing services to ComiXology, which made lines blurry.

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