Before, Amazon users were limited to their roles as customers-Amazon supplied the books, and users bought them. The ComiXology acquisition is an important move to make Amazon’s ecosystem feel more complete. With its vast library of available books and e-books to purchase, Amazon already has a rival to the iBookstore-its main website-but thanks to comiXology, Amazon can tackle the entire iBooks platform, which about two years ago started letting authors customize their works, from design to publication, with a tool called “ iBooks Author.” But with Amazon, this technology no longer needs to be limited to just comic books.Īmazon and Apple have fiercely competed with each other in the e-reader/tablet space, and now the living room/TV space.
With ComiXology under its belt, Amazon has a chance to make Kindle owners very happy.Īt its core, ComiXology lets artists design, create and publish their digital works to their liking-and making it easy for anyone to use. Until Amazon started tackling the living room recently, the company used to be known for two main reasons: Its retail site, and its Kindle e-readers. Amazon Wants To Be The Dominant Bookstore Again Like ComiXology as a whole, ComiXology Submit was free for all authors and allowed them to create and sell their works across a slew of mobile operating systems, including iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle Fire and the Web. Though ComiXology has been touting its immersive technologies for years, it only recently gave people the ability to create, stylize and publish their own books through a platform called “ComiXology Submit,” released in 2012. Like movie directors, they can choose the speed and order of every shot, and add special effects like “pan,” “zoom” and “fade” whenever they’d like. With special tools like “Guided View,” ComiXology lets its authors and artists select how they want their stories to feel and how they want them to be read.
But ComiXology believes electronic devices can do so much more than simply replicate the experience of reading a physical book. Smartphones and tablets are great because they can store a veritable library of books on relatively lightweight devices, which is so much better than having to lug around pounds of paper. With Amazon, ComiXology gets a big boost towards its goal of adding a third dimension to the two-dimensional world of books, comics and graphic novels. ComiXology is pioneering the art of digital storytelling, and attempting to bring these tools to the masses.
Well, that’s because the deal-and ComiXology, as a whole-isn’t just about comics. But why does the world’s biggest online retailer care so much about comic books? Amazon on Thursday announced it will acquire digital comics agency ComiXology for an undisclosed sum.
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