It doesn’t really make the sale go away, but it may limit the sales reach to consumers who look at the Amazon site for digital comics.Īnd if the sale continues on Amazon, it gives us a clue that these sales may have really been about getting more Kindle users into comics, rather than driving people to the Comixology website.When Amazon merged its digital comics platform ComiXology into the primary web presence earlier this year, what was intended as the solution to one problem – how to bring ComiXology in line with the larger Amazon apparatus – ended up creating another, by destabilizing the digital comics landscape as it previously existed. From a consumer standpoint, you can integrate the accounts and read Amazon purchases in the Comixology app, so where you buy is just a matter of preference and convenience. But what we can do is keep an eye on that Amazon sale page and see how long it stays up and if there’s a new one next week.Ĭomixology is now firmly part of Amazon, but you’ll notice they don’t always have the same prices and they don’t always run the same sales. We may not find out exactly what happened. It could be that this is some sort of compromise.It could be that Marvel had a closer look at it’s contracts and has a little more control over it’s presentation and pricing on the Comixology site than it does on Amazon.If so, things must move a lot more slowly at Amazon and we’ll have to see if it’s still up tomorrow. My initial thought when this happened, roughly 5am or 6am ET Thursday morning was that there was just a lag between Comixology pulling the pricing and Amazon doing the same.

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