Holy crap. That's big news for the digital comic book market.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/amazon-buys-comixology/?ncid=rss_truncated > > Amazon buys popular comic book app platform Comixology > > <http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/amazon-buys-comixology/> > > There's nothing quite like taking a massive, heavy library of beloved > books and shrinking it into an e-reader. Amazon, having already > accomplished that with its tremendously popular digital book service, is > now targeting the comic book market. The company is purchasing > Comixology<http://www.engadget.com/tag/comixology/>, > a digital comic book service with hundreds of millions of users and apps > for all of your devices. > > Comixogy CEO David Steinberger is quite fond of the agreement, the terms > of which were not disclosed (we're assuming it's at least $3.50 -- comics > these days are *awfully* expensive). "There is no better home for > comixology than Amazon to see this vision through," Steinberger says in the > announcement. "Working together, we look to accelerate a new age for comic > books and graphic novels." It's just a wild guess, but we're expecting the > first such "acceleration" will involve integrating Amazon payments and the > Comixology userbase over to Amazon. It's not yet clear if Comixology brand > will stand on its own (Amazon already sells single issues and graphic > novels on Kindle), but we're asking the company for more, but don't expect > to hear much -- the deal hasn't closed just yet, but it's expect to in the > next few months. > > *3 > Comments*<http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/amazon-buys-comixology/#comments> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
