Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, the company that revolutionized the digital comics reading experience with their immersive Guided View technology and makes discovering, buying, and reading comic books and graphic novels easier and more fun than ever before.
Amazon acquires comiXology
Great! I think Amazon should have even more control over books!
How would this not require some sort of overnight or approval?
The comics industry is a tiny blip in the book publishing world, and digital comics is but a fraction of the blip. I’m not crazy about the merger either, but you’re talking about oversight or approval for what is effectively a rounding error on a balance sheet.
I’m curious if this means I’ll get free digital comic book access with my Prime account now.
I can’t imagine this is a good thing for publishers.
Well shit.