Amazon, rather infamously, nuked Comixology's browser site 2 years ago and now they're completing the job by phasing out the dedicated app in favor of the Kindle App.
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The Comixology App will be shuttering in favor of the Kindle App on Dec 4th
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Amazon never cared about digital comics, comic fans or CMX. The writing's been on the wall for years but it still sucks and I'm sad for folks who still rely on it. Thanks for the memories comixology, RIP. It was a lovely ideal
Damn, this sucks but I guess it was inevitable.
I hate having comics mashed in with my books so I guess I'll need to do some organization.
And I'll have to redownload everything into Kindle on my ipad.
I hate having comics mashed in with my books so I guess I'll need to do some organization.
And I'll have to redownload everything into Kindle on my ipad.
So annoying. ComiXology before the app got gutted was so good. Now merging to kindle app really doesn't matter since they've been the same app with different labels for a while
I bought so many during the peak Comixology days. I haven't gotten any in months, maybe a year plus
Yeah, browsing the regular sales on the Comixology site was where I picked up a lot of my digital collection and reread a bunch of stuff from my youth.
Amazon is damn awful for browsing like that, and I have no idea if they have those themed sales. My buying went waaaaaay down after the changeover.
Amazon is damn awful for browsing like that, and I have no idea if they have those themed sales. My buying went waaaaaay down after the changeover.
I remember when Comixology gave away almost EVERY SINGLE BLACK PANTHER issue ever when Chadwick Boseman died.
I haven't checked the Kindle app but apparently everyone's comics should already have transferred over.
They still do. It's now almost always trade sales. Since the death of the old site single issue sales are all but gone. I still have a bookmark to the Amazon "CMX"
you click on this and then click deals. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/c...ing=UTF8&merchant=&ref=nav_ya_signin&#nav-top
I have (had?) 3599 books in Comixology, albeit a bunch from large scale giveaways, but I also used to buy books constantly. I haven't bought a single book since they "revamped" the app, and looking now it seems that only 1926 books are showing up in my kindle app anyway. I kind of want to raise a complaint just because that's excessively messed up, but I also legitimately don't intend to ever use Kindle for comics.
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It's so weird to me that they even bothered.
Amazon is so fucking destructive.
What did they get out of it, just being able to shutter a competitor? As someone who bought both comixology issues and kindle tpbs before the merger, I never understood what the purpose was.
But I guess it's not a very lucrative market because no competitors arose.
Amazon has done nothing but make the ComiXology experience worse and worse, ill put up with the kindle app as I don't have much choice but still what a massive lack of not understanding the customer.
In my case, I had to uninstall the App, then sync it a few times and wait a couple of hours before everything finally did show up properly.
I'm not happy.
I have over 300 comics not appearing on the Kindle app. They better fix this.
This is the majority of my library lol 😅 still I don't want to lose this!
I have over 300 comics not appearing on the Kindle app. They better fix this.
This is the majority of my library lol 😅 still I don't want to lose this!
The final nail in the coffin.
It actually enrages me how inferior Amazon's comics store is to the old Comixology. This is a site that actively refuses to make any effort to sell you new issues of comics you've purchased in the past. No "hey you bought Batman 137, just wanted you to know Batman 138 is out today!" Like, the very most basic sales tactics. Navigation is byzantine and annoying. Discovery is godawful. Even using the web reader isn't intuitive if you happen not to click the green button immediately after you purchase.
It was never about getting in on the action Comixology created, it was about murdering that action and eliminating an upstart in the digital publishing field. I wish everybody who started a company like Comixology would value the long term survival of their company over a big payday, even if they have every right to go for the latter.
It actually enrages me how inferior Amazon's comics store is to the old Comixology. This is a site that actively refuses to make any effort to sell you new issues of comics you've purchased in the past. No "hey you bought Batman 137, just wanted you to know Batman 138 is out today!" Like, the very most basic sales tactics. Navigation is byzantine and annoying. Discovery is godawful. Even using the web reader isn't intuitive if you happen not to click the green button immediately after you purchase.
It was never about getting in on the action Comixology created, it was about murdering that action and eliminating an upstart in the digital publishing field. I wish everybody who started a company like Comixology would value the long term survival of their company over a big payday, even if they have every right to go for the latter.
Even better, here is a direct link to the Sales list:
Wow, I can't even double check if I'm missing any books because the old app is already nuked apparently.
Thanks! This worked for me.
I rarely use the Kindle app, and when I opened it, it only showed 51 comics (of 756). Delete, re-install, then sync, and lastly refresh (hold/swipe down on library tab) - now able to see them all.
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Yeah, this worked for me too. All the books are there now.
Of course only about half are properly auto-grouped by series, lulz. But at least it's just comics under one filter.
Of course only about half are properly auto-grouped by series, lulz. But at least it's just comics under one filter.
It shouldn't be? But the way to check missing books is to do this
1) go to Amazon.com -> my account
2) select content & devices
3) click books
you can see the counts and if sync isn't working can push books to the device directly if you want
I will have to check on my ipad to make sure everything I had on Comixology is showing up properly.
Textbook example of enshittification. Such a huge fucking bummer. There is a lot of cool smaller shit that I only read because I stumbled into it being on sale on Comixology. Completely fucked and destroyed. I stopped using it quite a bit ago so this final bullet doesn't really mean much in practice beyond reminding me of what was lost a while ago.
A perfect example of the danger of owning digital media. All it takes is one merger to make your shit disappear or be made infinitely worse. What's happened to comixology over the last couple of years has been awful.
It's fucking awful over on the Japanese manga side as well. Just fucking shithouse UX all over the shop. Let's not even get into shelf organising. They don't even seperate out webtoons from tankobons.