The merger of digital markets of Comixology e Kindle continues to generate protests among readers, who complain about the difficulty in search and buy comics who want to read. After months of integration, the situation does not seem to improve, with several complaints from users. Who especially don’t like the lack of a comic-only store on the platform.
Comixology and Kindle, the merger continues to infuriate readers
Amazon bought Comixology in 2013. An undoubtedly intelligent move, especially for a company that was born selling books online: Comixology is one ideal platform for those who love comics. However, Amazon’s interventions on the platform had been relatively few so far. In 2014, he removed in-app purchases to avoid paying the percentage to Apple. But otherwise, the changes had been few and users had continued to use the app without destabilizing changes.
Ma a February 2022 the company decided to integrate the Comixology digital marketplace directly into the Kindle system, redesigning the app completely. Combining the possibility of buying the best comics even from publishing houses such as DC e Image to the possibility of buying every published novel and book, the Amazon’s digital market becomes really huge. But not anymore fnavigare to the ED.
Reviews of this choice are by no means positive. In February Gizmodo wrote that “Amazon’s Comixology revolution is here, and it sucks“. While IGN went so far as to say that “The new Comixology update takes the fun out of reading digital comics“.
Opinions do not seem different in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store. Reporting only the first few lines from the comments on Google Play: “The new app is simply a disaster“And” Last update indecent“. The last positive review is from April. But April 2021.
We need a marketplace with only comics
From the point of view ofuser interface many things have changed, not in the most intuitive way possible. Especially for those who have a long list of comics saved in the application. Also in the reading have been introduced novelties that some enthusiasts find annoying, trying to harmonize the controls with those of the Kindles. But reading prose or poetry books is different from reading graphic novels, with the result that complaints grow.
But most of all, the the difference is the store. Alex Cranz of The Verge explains that trying to pre-order the new series on Poison Ivythe bad DC, has instead found one in the first place on the store cream to treat irritation from poison ivy (in English, ‘poison ivy’). The volume he was looking for was in third place, although the search had started within Comixology. Her famous app for reading comics and not for treating skin irritations.
The Amazon store has completeness on its side. But try comics is often complicated, especially if you are looking for a particular number of a series (perhaps not yet reprinted in volume). Many users complain that looking for the new issue of a comic about Captain America they find movie, Funko Pop! and themed mugs before comics they want to buy.
Find a way to filter comics only for a company like Amazon, which develops artificial intelligences capable of communicating with humans, it shouldn’t be impossible. However, many users fear that it is not a priority. And they are thinking of other ways to manage your digital comic collection.