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ComiXology – It's All About Sharing?

Published Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:00:36 -0500

Last updated Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:34:32 -0500

Business Insider's Gus Lubin has talked about buying comics on ComiXology. He says,

I used to go to Forbidden Planet in Manhattan every Wednesday to browse new comics. But since my recent discovery of Comics by comiXology, the company that Amazon just bought for an undisclosed amount, I can't see myself regularly going to a comic store ever again.

He also admits to doing something else. He writes

Digital comics are also much easier to buy. Only last night I went on by far my biggest and most expensive comic book binge ever, not to mention my first-ever in-app purchase binge, buying issues 103 through 120 of "The Walking Dead." It cost $40. That series is so good and it is so easy to buy comic after comic that I couldn't help myself.

It helps if you share an account with a friend who bought the first 102 comics and who will also enjoy anything you buy (probably in violation of the terms of agreement).

ComiXology's Terms Of Service include the following lines for Limitations Of Use.

You may not sell, rent, lease, lend, transfer, assign, sublicense, share any rights to, reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, modify, or prepare any derivative work based on the Service, or publish or otherwise make the Service available to others.

Also, you may not

pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else or impersonate any other individual or entity

But how common is sharing ComiXology accounts? I confess, it may be naive of me, but I've never even considered the possibility before. There's little online, save for a locked CBR thread from 2012 exploring the possibility where the moderator wrote,

As sharing an account is something comixology would frown upon, this thread boarders on piracy. And specifically its not about DC comics so closed…. possibly a delete coming

And there appears to be a short list of shared ComiXology accounts here. Considering the press that shared HBO Go accounts get, it's possible that not too many folk have thought of doing this.

Maybe, like HBO, ComiXology just won't care?

UPDATE: No, not Jeff Bezos – an error in attribution!

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