Now, the Comixology app is merged with the Kindle codebase – so it’s essentially the Kindle app in all but name. And it’s so, so much worse than you could possibly have anticipated.
Yet this week, with a staggered rollout of an update to the Comixology app, all that changed. Though Amazon bought Comixology way back in 2014, they have kept a generally hands-off approach, letting Comixology do its thing in continuing to provide standard setting features and benefits for digital comics fans. It was clearly an app with functionality by fans, for fans.
Grouping comics into various series and keeping track of what could be a messy library was also a cinch, with plenty of features and options that made sense for comic book fans. It's also non-exclusive, which means creators can offer their titles through other platforms like Gumroad.For more than a decade, the Comixology app has enabled me to conveniently keep up with reading a vast array of comic books not just providing an easy way to find new releases from various publishers, but also making them easy to read across a wide range of devices and screen sizes with the excellent panel to panel reading formats. Creators submit their work through a fairly simple portal ComiXology curates submissions and adapts the work to its signature Guided View mode and the creator and the platform split any profit from sales through ComiXology. Beyond giving independent creators distribution via ComiXology, Submit offers a convenient middle ground between working with a publisher and going it alone. Digitally, comics publishing has lagged a few years behind prose, and even now, there aren't many comics-specific creator-oriented resources.
Self-publishing comics has never carried the stigma it does in the prose world, but it's an arduous process, and it can be prohibitively expensive, especially in print. It's success is no surprise: Submit is coming into a market primed for an easy answer for creator-oriented digital comics publishing. The digital comics house launched Submit a year ago at SXSW, and marked its first anniversary by breaking the program down by the numbers on a panel today. 3 source of content released in the past year. ComiXology announced today that, a year after launch, the creator-direct portal Submit now features 1,000 titles from 26 countries around the world, making Submit ComiXology's No.
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