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Amazon is Offering 70 Digital Marvel Graphic Novels for FREE with Purchase

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Amazon is currently running a promotion where you can get one of 70 “best-selling” Marvel graphic novels for free on Kindle with the purchase of a hardcover or paperback graphic novel. Those who partake will get a free credit automatically applied when to “click to buy eBook.”

The offer expires October 21, 2017 and is limited to one per customer account.

This is the second recent promotion Amazon has run regarding digital copies of Marvel graphic novels and trade. I twas not too long ago the company blew out digital copies with 70 to 80% off regular price bringing some down to just a few dollars (if that).

Guided View Comes to Kindle

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Amazon today announced the Kindle debut of comiXology’s Guided View experience, now available on the Kindle app for iOS, Fire tablets and Android. With this update, Kindle readers can cinematically read from panel-to-panel at their own pace. Each Guided View experience is handcrafted by a comic lover to make sure fans can become immersed in reading their favorite comic books, even on the smallest screen. Guided View is delivered as part of a free, over-the-air update on the Kindle app for iOS, Fire tablets and Android.

This is something I predicted way back in 2014 as one of the things likely to happen when Amazon purchased comiXology (integration with Amazon log in was another that has come true).

With Guided View, Kindle comic book fans will be able to lose themselves in over 85,000 digital comics and graphic novels like never before, making reading comics more immersive and enjoyable on any size device.

Around the Tubes

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kiss01-cov-h-photoIt’s new comic book day! What has everyone excited this week? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below!

While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

Remezcla – How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry – A great read about 3 kick-ass creators.

Kotaku – Hasbro is starting its own fan convention next year. – We knew it was coming!

GeekWire – Kindle courts manga and graphic novel enthusiasts with upgrades – Very interesting. How will this impact comiXology and vice versa?

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

The Beat – Deadpool Annual #1

Newsarama – Kiss #1

Newsarama – Slapstick #1

Cartoon Books Renews with ComiXology, Expands to Amazon’s Kindle Store

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Bone Out From BonevilleCartoon Books, comiXology and Amazon have announced an expanded and renewed distribution agreement to sell Cartoon Books’ digital comics and collections, including the award-winning Bone, on the comiXology platform and expand the distribution of Cartoon Books’ library to Amazon’s Kindle Store. Cartoon Books publishes Jeff Smith‘s New York Times bestselling and fan-favorite titles Bone, Rasl and more. Cartoon Books catalog is available today on comiXology and will be available on Amazon’s Kindle Store in the near future.

This is the latest in a string of announcements by comiXology that renews distribution through the digital comics platform and also expands it to Kindle.

Zenescope Renews with comiXology and Expands to Kindle

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ZenescopeZenescope Entertainment, comiXology and Amazon announced today an expanded and renewed distribution agreement to sell Zenescope’s digital comics and collections across the comiXology platform and expand the distribution of Zenescope’s library to Amazon’s Kindle Store.

Today’s announcement sees the digital debut of Zenescope Entertainment’s entire catalog in the Kindle Store, including such hits as Return to Wonderland, Escape from Monster Island, and Grimm Tales of Terror.

This is the latest of such deals and announcements this year which have included Aspen Comics, Heavy Metal, Dover, and Aftershock Comics,

Star Wars Force Friday Sale on comiXology and Kindle

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star wars the force awakensTo celebrate Force Friday, comiXology, Amazon’s Kindle Store and Marvel Comics are teaming up to offer some great deals on some fantastic Star Wars graphic novels.

From 9/4 to 9/6, go here to get great deals on comiXology:

For only $2.99:
STAR WARS A NEW HOPE VOL. 1
STAR WARS RETURN OF THE JEDI VOL. 1
STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK VOL. 1

For only $4.99:
CLASSIC STAR WARS VOL. 1
STAR WARS AGENT OF EMPIRE VOL. 1
STAR WARS LEGACY II VOL. 1
STAR WARS LEGACY VOL. 1
STAR WARS OMNIBUS A LONG TIME AGO… VOL. 1
STAR WARS OMNIBUS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC VOL. 1
STAR WARS OMNIBUS: X-WING ROUGE SQUADRON VOL. 1
STAR WARS TALES VOL. 1
STAR WARS VOL. 1: IN THE SHADOW OF YAVIN

Kindle Unlimited includes Comics and Graphic Novels. Can comiXology Unlimited be far behind?

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2014-07-18_0941It’s been rumored for a few days now, but Amazon today introduced Kindle Unlimited, a new subscription service that gives customers access to over 600,000 Kindle Books, and and some of Amazon’s thousands of Audible audiobooks for $9.99 a month.

But, buried in the massive offering from Amazon are is a section dubbed “Comics & Graphic Novels” featuring currently 3,690 books.

When you dig deeper into the offering, things get a bit stranger. The biggest publisher I’ve found so far is IDW Publishing, but their offerings are limited. There’s also a lot of manga, but within that count too is a lot of “how too” books as well as books on the industry, so it’s not all comics and graphic novels in the traditional sense. What does seem present is a lot of independent books, some I recognize as having been sent to our site to review, or from Kickstarter.

The big question though, is how comiXology fits into the bigger plans. Earlier this year Amazon purchased the digital comics distributor, and other than how you can purchase your books (in the app vs through the web), the changes have been minimal. Rumors of comiXology providing an all you can read service have persisted, and it’s a question that’s come up at every panel I’ve ever attended of theirs. With this move by Amazon, maybe we’re seeing the first steps towards that.

Top Shelf’s Digital Sale and Kindle Matchbook!

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Top Shelf has announced a massive sale on their digital comics! Now through November 17, you can save a hell of a lot of cash on many of the excellent Top Shelf releases.

We don’t have room to list them all here, but to give you a taste:

Top Shelf has also announced they are participating in Kindle’s Matchbook program! Kindle has announced that they are now offering digital editions of books, music, movies and more with the purchase of the physical object (from those publishers that participate) for a few bucks more, or even free. Top Shelf has announced that many of their books are now available through this program.

What’s very cool is, this is retroactive, so if you already bought certain Top Shelf titles from Amazon, or will be in the future, you have the option to scoop up a digital version for just a few bucks more!

So far the program applies to titles like March: Book One, God Is Disappointed in You, From Hell, Essex County, Wizzywig, Monster on the Hill, Johnny Boo, Owly, and more! Head to Amazon’s Kindle MatchBook page to see which of your purchases are eligible for this convenient digital add-on.

Preview: Amanda Hocking’s The Hollows: A Hollowland Graphic Novel Part 7 (of 10)

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AMANDA HOCKING’S THE HOLLOWS: A HOLLOWLAND GRAPHIC NOVEL PART 7 (of 10)

Amanda Hocking, Tony Lee (w)
Steve Uy (a)
Steve Uy (c)
B&W • 22 pages • $1.99 • Teen+ • On Sale 8/7

Caught by Maurauders on the streets of a ghost town, Remy and her companions must decide whether to accept the help of a stranger – but will they accept before one of them dies? As the zombies get closer, so do Remy and Lazlo… as we continue through this enhanced adaptation of Amanda Hocking’s best selling novel HOLLOWLAND by #1 New York Times bestseller Tony Lee (X-Men Unlimited, Doctor Who), and Steve Uy (Avengers Initiative, JSA Classified)! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents Amanda Hocking’s The Hollows: A Hollowland graphic novel.

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Amazon Launches Kindle Comic Creator

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amazon-logoLast week Amazon launched a new function for comic creators to adapt their comics for the Kindle. The Kindle Comic Creator is a free tool for authors and publishers to turn their comics, graphic novels and manga into Kindle books.

Kindle Comic Creator makes it fast and easy for authors and publishers to import artwork, create their preferred customer reading experience and preview how their book will look on Kindle devices. Kindle Comic Creator eliminates the need for authors and publishers to understand the complexities of HTML/CSS in publishing their book on Kindle.

The function allows creators to create guided navigation experience with Kindle Panel Views. The technology detects and recommends Kindle Panel View placement in books. It also makes it simple to create books with double page spread, facing pages and right-to-left page turns.

It works with popular graphic file types, so authors are free to create art in their preferred design tools. Kindle Comic Creator can import single or multi-page images in jpg, pdf, tiff, png and ppm formats and allows for a quick preview.

Check out the new function, should be interesting to see the response.

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