The rushed, crass, and careless feeling updates of this past week really muddy those waters. I cannot emphasize this enough: If you wanted the best experience reading digital comics, you read them on Comixology. Truly, I’ve watched over the years as Marvel Unlimited has slowly and steadily tried to emulate Comixology, from their smart panel technology to their smooth transition between double page spreads, and how they’ve never, not for a second, quite caught up to the wizards at Comixology. I’ve been covering the digital comics landscape since CBH was founded in 2011, and in that entire time, Comixology has been *the* competitive leader in the experience of reading digital comics. If you’re a desktop reader, they eradicated it entirely. In one update, they managed to notably sabotage one of the two. A borderline monopoly on selling digital comics from *virtually all* publishers.The best digital comics reading technology available.
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What I took to be a minor shift was instead accompanied by a full app overhaul, a desktop reader overhaul, Comixology Unlimited changes, and virtually every feature changed – predominantly for the worse – in one form or another. In and of itself, this would have generated the predictable levels of dissatisfaction that happens with any technology changing, but Comixology managed to actually shock by combining the migration with a full-on upheaval of their entire product. This rollout was delayed (spoiler: all rollouts are delayed), but came to fruition this past week. While a mild inconvenience for a strapping young webmaster like myself, this was hardly shocking, as Amazon purchased Comixology back in 2014, and it’s honestly surprising Comixology operated as its own entity as long as it did. Several months back, Comixology’s affiliate linking partner began emailing participants (including yours truly!), that the Comixology affiliate program would shut down in the coming months, as the website migrated in full to Amazon.
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