Starting in December, the Comixology app received’t paintings anymore — you’ll need to learn your comics in Amazon’s Kindle app as a substitute. Amazon introduced that the apps will merge on December 4th, that means that, from that time on, “you’ll be able to proceed to get right of entry to your Comixology comics, graphic novels, and manga titles within the Kindle app,” the company says in a support document.
It is very important obtain any Comixology books you have been studying into the Kindle app, however Amazon says that any growth in a ebook you learn in Comixology will mechanically sync over to Kindle. You’ll additionally proceed to shop for comics from Amazon’s Comixology section on its store. However after December 4th, you received’t have the ability to learn comics within the Comixology app anymore.
In an e mail, Amazon defined some enhancements to the Kindle app supposed to make it higher fitted to comics. There’s a “Comics & Magna” filter out in your library to extra simply see the entire comics and manga that you just personal. The app will workforce in combination problems, volumes, and omnibuses from the similar collection. You’ll additionally cover and unhide particular books — and any books you had set to hidden within the Comixology app can be hidden in Kindle. Comixology additionally shared a video on X (formerly Twitter) about how you’ll be able to use the Kindle app for comics.
Amazon introduced that it will be obtaining Comixology in 2014, and for a very long time, it just about left the carrier by myself. However ultimate yr, it redesigned the Comixology app and began a messy merger of Comixology and Kindle that my colleague Alex Cranz described as “a hell I’d like to escape.” Even supposing Amazon did dedicate to fixing Comixology, unfortunately, very quickly, the Comixology app received’t paintings in any respect.