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Amazon now offers Comixology buy buttons on many graphic novels

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Over the last few weeks, Comixology's role within parent company Amazon has gotten much stronger: Amazon is now part of the CX logo, you can log in to Comixology with your Amazon account, and as a couple of people pointed out, purchasing a book from Comixology is now linked directly from the main entry for a book. In the past, the options were for print, audio and Kindle, but the digital buy button now is a single link for Kindle and Comixology.

Scrolling for Stela: New line of phone-based comics launches in 2016

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Above: the EXCLUSIVE first look at the cover to Inheritance #1 As we’ve been ruminating here for a while, digital comics are well established for various platforms—phones, tablets and computers—but with mobile becoming the main...

Streaming comics service Comic Blitz goes global, adds publishers

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Wrapping up Tech Thursday in comics news, Comic Blitz, a standalone app that offers streaming comics, has upped it's offerings since its launch, just after New York Comic Con. Starting today the app is...

Archie Comics releases standalone iOS app offering issues and streaming

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It must be digital Thursday as the news is flying fast and furious. Archie has also announced it's own new digital initiative, called, Archie Comics Reader, a new standalone iOS app, designed by...

Scribd goes subscription only

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According to a letter sent to content providers earlier this week, Scribd, an online ebook service, is retiring its retail store in favor of its subscription service. Scribd offers over 1 million books, audio...

E-book sales slipping, paper still popular but beware the phone

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As many have noted of late, e-book sales are slipping, and Publishers Weekly's Jim Milliot has a report on how slowing e-book sales hit profits of two big publishers, S&S and HarperCollins: Parent company...

31 Days of Halloween: Sequential’s Halloween Sale

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What could be spookier than discounts between 50 and 85% hacked off the print price of books from Dark Horse and Fantagraphics to SelfMadeHero and Improper Books all available via the Sequential app for tablet. We've been telling you about Sequential for a while now -- it aims to be the highness app for graphic novels only, with a fine selection of top books from the finest graphic novel publishers.

David Lloyd and Aces Weekly–the new frontier of comics

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by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson David Lloyd is known for his innovative creativity drawing V for Vendetta along with writer Alan Moore. David’s use of the Guy Fawkes mask for the main character has become a political archetype that...

Dark Horse digital single issues now available on five new platforms

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After years of releasing their digital comics via through their own app, Dark Horse has finally announced that all their comics will be available on Comixology, as well as four other platforms, including Kindle, Google Play, iBooks, and the Nook. It's an expansive expansion and marks a very smart move for Dark Horse: there is really no upside to limiting digital distribution these days, and the multi=platform war was won long ago. All releases will be released simultaneously in print and digital. In June Dark Horse made its graphic novel line-up available via Comxiology and according to publisher Mike Richardson, “the sales have been incredible.”

LINE Webtoon launches the New Brooklyn comics line

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We've been reporting various activities by LINE Webtoon, a line of digital comics available via an app for iOS and Google Play. Here's their first big original launch: New Brooklyn, a line of adventure...

And now D&Q is available on Comixology and Kindle

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Well, D&Q was just about the last digital holdout among prestige comics publishers, but today they have joined the throngs with a full selection of books available both via Comixology and in the Kindle...

Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha join Comixology

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Digital manga—more available than ever before. Both Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha have just joined Comixology and the Kindle store. The digital Weekly Shonen Jump makes such favorites as One Piece, Bleach, Blue...

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