Over the past year, Comixology has been keeping its customers posted about a new app and a new store on Amazon, their parent company. After a few setbacks (the app was supposed to launch last year), they’re finally rolling everything out. First, though, is the Amazon store they’ve been building. This new store is Amazon, even if the banner says it is for the Comixology app. In the actual URL, it’s just “kindle-dcbs/comics-store.” So, what are the changes? Are they good or bad? Well, while Amazon offers some excellent new features, they removed a lot of what made the current Comixology site work.
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In fact, the user interface is so different, a lot of readers are going to feel very confused by the alterations. Where did Smart Lists go? Why is there an even more obsessive push for ComiXology Originals? What if I need to find one particular issue in every run on Thor ever? Why are they making a new Comixology app to begin with?
Since many people switched to digital comics during the pandemic, let’s take a look at these changes. We’re going to try breaking the new store for the Comixology app down as best we can, showing the differences, but also the steps needed for readers to do what they were once able to. Scroll through the gallery to see what the changes look like and what they mean for you as a reader and a customer.
Some of the new Comixology app changes, at least on the store level, are cool. A cleaner look, a better filtering system, and a couple of other things. But for the most part, we’re losing too much to make the change worth it. The big question is: will these changes dissuade people from continuing with the new Comixology app? We can’t answer that yet, since the new app isn’t out yet, but we can stalk about the store.