ComiXology’s Futureīut with 50 to 75% of ComiXology employees being laid off, there are many questions about what will happen to the division. Reasons (stated or otherwise) for these include the large number of hires during the pandemic to handle all the societal changes, high interest rates, and following suit with what the other Big Tech companies are doing. This is part of 18,000 positions being downsized at Amazon, and it appears at least half - if not three-fourths - of the ComiXology team were let go.Īmazon is far from the only tech company laying off people Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) both eliminated employees this same week, and others are going to be doing the same. On January 18th, a large number of ComiXology employees were laid off. Now, there are real fears there will be a lack of new or reimplemented features from ComiXology. Meanwhile, features like Guided View didn’t make the Kindle web reader until December 2022.
This was already disabled on iOS back in 2014. Creators also expressed concerns about the drop in royalties and the (re)upload process.Īlso in 2022, Amazon removed in-app purchases for Android devices. Among the complaints were lack of subscriptions for all series, no more DRM-free downloads, poor search, and unintuitive menus. The merger was completed in February 2022, and this “ComiXology 4.0” was met with widespread criticism immediately after and still months later. Part of ComiXology’s appeal was “guided view”, an option which panels were shown individually instead of showing an entire page at once. While Amazon’s Kindle and ComiXology stores remained separate, users could purchase Kindle content to also view on ComiXology, but not vice versa. And by 2014, it was the leading digital comics platform, a status Amazon coveted since its original comics imprint Jet City Publishing didn’t take off. ComiXologyĬomiXology was founded in 2007 as a way for readers to preorder comic issues and pick them up at their local shop.īut eventually, ComiXology began offering digital comic purchases. And manga and light novel readers may have a whole digital collection on a Kindle device or app.īut readers may have also purchased manga on another Amazon-owned platform: ComiXology. Plenty of major sites are hosted on Amazon Web Services. Being the #1 shopping destination has allowed the company to stretch its fingers into many other areas. Amazon is known for its online store, where they carry just about everything from a to z (as seen in its logo).
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