![]() When Amazon bought Comixology back in 2014, it claimed that people were using the app to download 8 million comics per month. It started as a tool to help comic book store customers manage their in-store "pull list" subscriptions, but pivoted into digital comics circa 2009. ![]() The de facto standard for digital comics is Comixology, an app that lets you buy and read comic books on the web, phones, and tablets. So for me, after more than a decade of regular trips to comic book stores on two coasts to pick up my haul, this is the end of an era. For the comics industry, currently in the middle of a tremendous boom period, it's a sign of big, technology-driven change to come.Īnd unlike what happened to the music industry, the digital comics revolution seems to be helping everybody: customers, creators, publishers, and stores alike. It got to the point where I was using my boxes of comic books to prop up my desk. Not long after moving into the new house, we realized that there just wasn't enough room my ever-expanding comic book collection.Īnd so, with a heavy heart, I canceled my account with my local comic book store, and started the process of re-subscribing to all my comic books digitally, via Amazon's Comixology service.Ī big part of why I still went to the store - San Francisco's amazing Isotope Comics, to be specific - was because a good comic book store is also a great place to hang out.Įven after the comics had started piling up to a dangerous degree, I liked just visiting the store too much to really consider an all-digital alternative. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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