International manga and light novel fans who can read Japanese are not able to purchase digital versions of their favorite stories from the Japanese Kindle store due to license restrictions. While the merger with Amazon may have seemingly removed this barrier, it actually didn't and only ended up restricting comic purchases by region.
And if you take a look at Amazon's history regarding how it has managed ComiXology in the past, user skepticism might not seem too far-fetched.Comixology also had global versions of its store prior to the Amazon merger but rarely sold comics translated in other languages and incorporated international taxes and fees. However, despite the announcement, many users are skeptical of Amazon's plans for fixing the platform.
It did admit that this beta version won't include a guided view yet but said that the company is working to include it in the future.Īmazon also announced that you would soon be able to filter your comics from your books in the Kindle library, a major complaint among users. In it, after admitting that ComiXology 4.0 needed some fixing, it proceeded to name some planned improvements.ĬomiXology announced the coming launch of a beta version of the web reading experience that includes double-page spread, zoom-in, and zoom-out functionality, as well as vertical scrolling while reading. The problem is that the main reason to buy a Kindle is to read books, not comics, and as a result, the new interface is just not good.Īfter having caused a major user backlash with “ComiXology 4.0”, on June 15, 2022, a thread was published on ComiXology’s Twitter account outlining plans to fix the issues brought up by discontent users. This is the outcome of Amazon's consideration that "keeping two different code bases just isn't sustainable," as per a thread on ComiXology's Twitter account, which resulted in merging the ComiXology app with the Kindle code base. Then, looking for comics in the marketplace showed both comic and non-comic results. First, when you went through your Kindle library, you were presented with books and comics, with no way to sort them out. Users complained that the merger brought chaos to the ComiXology and Kindle libraries and their now shared marketplace. The guided panel tech remains in the app, but you can't use it from a web browser or the Kindle Cloud Reader on your PC. User criticism mostly arose from the ComiXology app's new interface and merging of the ComiXology and Kindle libraries and marketplaces.Īfter the update, the ComiXology app interface is the same as the Kindle app some would even say it was the same.
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