![]() ![]() 5-issue miniseries – available monthly – $2.99 per issue on Kindle and comiXology.(“It’s Pitch Perfect meets Pacific Rim,” joked Humphries.) But they’re not the only ones on his trail. Monsters will rise, cities will fall…but best friends are forever! Zelda, Eunice, and Juliet are three best friends: orphans of the Kaiju Generation, and adoptive mothers to their own baby Goliath! For years they’ve searched for the elusive King of All Goliaths, the one fabled to bring the Forever War to an end. Written by Sam Humphries with art by Alti Firmansyah To that end, they unveiled the next wave of Originals today at Comic-Con. ![]() It all boils down to ComiXology’s stated mission: to make everyone on the planet a comics, graphic novel, and manga fan. As ComiXology Head of Content Chip Mosher told the audience, “we’re trying to do things that may or may not be successful in the direct market.” Each book does have a price point, and will be print on demand for those of us who still need that hard copy, but as I noted earlier today - we’re not necessarily the target audience.ĬomiXology Originals allows creators to be more experimental, and if something hits, that may inspire more mainstream publishers. All free-to-read as part of all Amazon and ComiXology reading subscriptions - including Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading. They answered that with ComiXology Originals, an exclusive content line that debuted last year. According to Steinberger, 55% of new buyers at Comixology come in from being subscribers to ComiXology Unlimited, and over 50% of current buyers that subscribe end up adding new publishers and creators to their buy lists.īut the next phase of the question, added Steinberger, was this: “How do we think bigger?” Two years ago, ComiXology (now owned by Amazon) unveiled Comixology Unlimited, where for a $5.99 a month subscription fee, readers could get a taste of a wide variety of books, from publishers large and small. Where are new comics readers going to come from? That’s the question that David Steinberger hoped to answer when he launched ComiXology 10 years ago, and realized that the digital comic book store version 1 was good, but not yet good enough.
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