![]() ![]() I guess now I need to use a Wish List or pencil and paper. When there’s a big sale, I’ll often throw everything into my cart and then whittle down that list to what fits in my budget. The Shopping Cart Is Gone - Even If You’ve Already Bought the Book I have to think that they’ll be merging the two so-called “Unlimited” subscription plans at some point down the road.įunny enough, on a single title, they only show the Kindle option: Amazon wants you to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited to read their Comixology Originals If you want to read a Comixology Original title without paying directly for it, just subscribe to Amazon Prime. Every Company Loves a Good Subscription Service, So Amazon Now Gives You Three It’s like calling San Diego Comic-Con “Comic-Con International: San Diego.” Yeah, that’s cute and corporate and official and all, but nobody ever refers to it that way. It’s more important to point out what books are “comiXology Originals” than it is to let the reader know what issue it is.īy the way, the official spelling of the company is lowercase-C and uppercase-X: comiXology Nobody does that, though. In the above example, only “Iron Fist” manages to squeeze an issue number in there. So many of the titles are so bloated with parentheticals that Amazon can’t fit the issue number on the screen, no matter how big you make your screen. Good luck finding issue numbers on the new releases. I don’t have a picture for that, but yeah - when you click through on a comic issue to get more information, you are sent to that issue’s page on the Kindle Store, and all the comics-related navigation is replaced with the Kindle Book Store’s navigation material. That also explains how everything runs through the Kindle Book Store once you get one level deeper than the Comixology “store.” Or, if you’re really cynical, it shows that Amazon is just waiting out the periodical and only wants to deal with “books” - thicker things with spines and ISBNs. It shows that they haven’t made the commitment to handle comics as a medium of their own. Every other digital comics reader on the internet was crossing their fingers and worried.Īmazon refers to single issues of a comic series as “books.” That really bothers me. ![]() Comixology: Amazon’s New Reading App The First Sign That Something Is About To Go AwryĬomixology was excited. ![]()
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