Earlier this month it was announced that Amazon had acquired the comiXology digital comics store. The first move towards its integration into Amazon was the site's severing of its ties to Apple with the release of a comics reader app to replace its (now) non-functional storefront app. Further details from these two articles on The Beat:
Amazon removes ability to buy comics through Comixology app to cut out Apple (26 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/amazon-removes-ability-to-buy-comics-through-comixology-app-to-cut-out-apple/
and
New ComiXology: Publishers can run their storefront apps for now (28 April 2014):
http://comicsbeat.com/new-comixology-publishers-can-run-their-storefront-apps-for-now/.
Originating in 2010, Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century is designed as a aid to furthering studies of the comics, comic art, and translations of comics into/from other media. The blog is associated with both The Arthur of the Comics Project, an effort of the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and The Medieval Comics Project, an effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture.
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