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Comixology Offers New Subscription Service: Comixology Unlimited

By | May 24th, 2016
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This morning, the digital comics site, Comxiology, went live with their newest feature, Comixology Unlimited. The subscription service — joining the ranks of platforms referred to as “Netflix for comics” — runs $5.99 a month and features titles from Image, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, IDW, Oni Press, Fantagraphics, Kodansha, among others. Comixology is also offering up a 30-day free trial before you begin, and promises access to “thousands of comics.”

Comixology CEO David Steinberger said in a statement, “It’s a lot easier if people have a very low risk opportunity to discover comics for themselves and just really take their time with the catalog.”

Comixology itself won’t be changing. The site has added a new tab to their page for titles that qualify for the program. Users will still have the chance to purchase and download comics, including from mainstream corporately-owned superhero companies like Marvel and DC, which are not a part of the Comixology Unlimited service. (Marvel, of course, has their own service: Marvel Unlimited.) Not all titles will always be available, either, with Comixology planning to “cycle titles in and off its catalog in the future.”

The company also promises to have feature recommended books, where-to-start features, and more. However, users will have to merge their Comixology accounts with their Amazon accounts in order to access the service. It’s also necessary to download the comics while on a mobile device rather than being able to stream the titles. with a 50-book limit. In many cases, only the first few volumes of a trade or issues of a series will be available to access, with the option to purchase the rest of the stories when readers have caught up.

“It sounds silly, but our mission is to make everyone on the planet a comics fan. That’s really hard to do by just throwing them into the middle of 100,000 comic books,” Steinberger continued. “I hope that people who love comics take this as a tool to introduce their friends to specific content, and then because this is the inexpensive way to get to that content, help them explore even more.”

With access to such a wide variety of books, this service sounds like it’s a great way to expose readers to a wider range of comic books, of stuff beyond the typical mainstream corporately-owned titles.

[Via Entertainment Weekly]

 

 

 


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