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ComiXology To Stop In App Purchases On iOS And Google Play Purchases On Android. But You Do Get A $5 Voucher.

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ComiXology have often boasted on being the No.1 revenue raising App in the Apple App Store every Wednesday.

Not any more.

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Today, ComiXology iPhone and iPad customers are being told that the ComiXology app is being retired and they must download a new App and synch their accounts. For future purchases, customers must go through the webstore which, to be frank, is clumsier. It will however deprive Apple of their cut of each purchase, so more money will go to ComiXology and, hopefully, the publisher and/or creators.

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Android customers must also download a new version though they will still be able to buy comics in-App (I just checked). However they will not be able to pay through Google Play – for similar reasons.

Here's what the new App looks like now.

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I have to say the Cloud/Device is smoother than before in the new App. Even if it will take some downloading work on my part.

 

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As a result of the change, ComiXology is giving all customers a $5 voucher, automatically applied to their account. Here's how they have been responding this morning…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What some folk may not have realised is that the old App still works. Get past the warning screen and you can read all your old books in the same way as you used to. You just can't buy any more that way…

And also a number of books with Mature Readers content have been hampered by not being available to purchase in App. Now everything, from Sex Criminals to the Smurfs is on an equal playing field…


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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