Marvel Unlimited is Marvel Comics’ subscription service, featuring more than 20,000 digital comics including old stuff from the catalog and new issues released between six and twelve months after initial release. But if you’re a heavy Kindle user and don’t read too many comics, reading in the Kindle app could be more convenient. I prefer using Comixology for comics and Kindle for books-Comixology’s organizational system is built around comics, so it works better if you buy a lot of individual issues or collections in a series. (Books wants to pan back and forth across comic book spreads, which I just don’t like – I prefer to see just the current page I’m reading.)Īmazon’s Kindle app will also let you read comics, and it uses the same technology as Comixology, so it’s a good reading experience, other than needing to buy comics via the web. If you prefer in-app purchases, Apple will sell you comics inside the Books app, though I find Comixology’s reading experience superior in almost every way. It’s an extra step, but it’s easy to buy comics in Safari and then read them in the app. Because it’s an Amazon property, you have to buy comics on the Comixology website and then switch to the app to download them. The three apps I use to do most of my comic reading on iPad are Comixology, Marvel Unlimited, and Chunky Comic Reader.Ĭomixology, owned by Amazon, is the leading digital comic-book storefront. Now that the new iPad Pro models are out, I thought it was worth revisiting the current state of the art in iPad comics to see where things stand. The iPad is the best thing to happen to comics since four-color printing. Comixology on the 12.9- and 11-inch iPad Pros. A deal to offer up 700 Marvel Comics for free crashed its servers, while a recent data breach forced its customers to change their passwords.Note: This story has not been updated for several years.
The company has found itself in hot water in other ways, too. However, Comixology has a reputation for withholding some comics from its store that other digital retailers will publish, based on the content of the books, particularly those that have been labeled as not suitable for children. Gross sales of Comixology's iPad app placed it in the top 10 in 20, and made it the No. David Naggar, Amazon's vice president of content acquisition and independent publishing, said in a statement that both companies are invested in "reinventing reading in a digital world."Ĭomixology's fortunes rose quickly thanks to a dearth of digital marketplaces for comics, a big launch on the first iPad, and its patented technology for Guided View, a tap-to-read method for advancing from panel to panel in digital comics.
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