There is no purchase experience on the iOS app due to Apple's in-app purchase requirements. Users can hide comics manually in their Amazon account for now, but a filter for these collections will come to Kindle soon. All subscriptions to series have been canceled, so customers must manually seek out and purchase new releases in a series when they become available.Īll purchases made in Comixology will also appear in Kindle Books. Others are enraged at the loss of a functional browser-based comic viewer.Īny customer who pre-ordered a book on Comixology will be migrated to an Amazon pre-order via an emailed link. Some collectors have complained that they are missing hundreds of comics or lost their collection entirely.
The migration process doesn't seem to be going smoothly, and it's not clear why.
Once the comics are migrated to the new app, users can download their library again. If your purchases don't immediately appear in the new app, they will eventually sync between the old and new accounts. Your downloaded comics will be deleted during the update process.Īccording to the FAQ, this migration may several hours depending on the size of your collection. Once the Comixology 4.0 update is available it will be installed automatically.
Users must merge their Comixology account with their Amazon account to sign in to the new app.įollowing the merge, iOS and Android users with automatic app updates enabled do not need to take any action. This means all previous purchases made on Comixology will now be listed in your Amazon purchase history alongside Kindle books. The company claims that despite having done so for more than seven years, couldn't continue developing two separate code bases for the old app and the new app in parallel.Īt the center of this migration is the transition of Comixology from an independent store to Amazon. However, not all features are available in the new app.Īccording to Comixology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger, the company had to launch the new 4.0 app now to speed up the transition. This means users must download the new app and begin migrating their data. With the Comixology 4.0 update, the service is being added to the Kindle and users' libraries are being migrated into their Amazon purchase history.
Migrating Comixology to an Amazon business model has created some problems for usersĪmazon purchased Comixology in 2014 and had left it to operate as a separate business until a recent move to make the service more universal.
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