I think they’re worth your time, and I would like to know what you think.Īmazon did this. Sidenote: I am not going to address Mr Conway’s points about attracting the casual reader or how this might fragment the market into publisher specific apps. Mr Conway makes a number of arguments in his post, most of which I disagree with, and so I thought I would take a few minutes today to respond. Conway, Amazon wanted "to advance their proprietary hardware platform, the Kindle, at the expense of Apple’s platform, the iPad and iPhone". This comics icon guest-posted an editorial earlier today over on where he argues that Amazon removed the store on purpose. This has many people quite upset, including Gerry Conway. This update did little more than remove the in-app store, forcing comic fans to leave the app to buy new content. 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.Is Gerry Conway Wrong About Amazon+Comixology?Īmazon ignited a storm of protest when they rolled out a new update yesterday for the Comixology app for iOS. 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.
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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