Many people love comics and graphic novels and one of the best
comic reader apps out there that let you read in many different formats, including CBR is Droid Comic Viewer.
Once your comics have been saved, you can view them the integrated Dropbox Reader or open in your choice of digital
comic reader apps on your iPad, Nexus, Kindle Fire, smartphone, laptop, or any of your digital comics reading devices.»
comiXology announced this morning in advance of New York Comic Con that they would soon open up their popular
comics reader app to self - publishers via a new portal called «comiXology Submit.»
Not exact matches
The Walking Dead, which won the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series at San Diego
Comic Con, recently went day - and - date with its digital version on comiXology - enabled devices and Web reader and is now giving its loyal fan base the ability to enjoy the comic in all of its gory in its own dedicated
Comic Con, recently went day - and - date with its digital version on comiXology - enabled devices and Web
reader and is now giving its loyal fan base the ability to enjoy the
comic in all of its gory in its own dedicated
comic in all of its gory in its own dedicated
app.
It's coming up on four years since Comixology's
app appeared on the iPhone, and that 2009 release was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between
comic - book
readers and their mobile devices.
I also think this move was very timely as the official Comixology
app for iOS does not allow customers to buy
comics in the
app and instead provides barriers for the casual
comic reader.
My standard e-reading
apps are Manga Rock, Crunchyroll Manga, Kindle, Zinio, Pressreader, Pulse
Reader, Reuters, Digg Marvel
comics.
If you're looking for a great, affordable little
comics reader, the Fire HD 6 with Marvel Unlimited or the PerfectViewer CBR
reader app might just be the ticket.
There are a lot of
comic book
readers out there, so I'm going to share with you the
comic reading
apps that I use the most, both commercial
readers that allow you to read
comics purchased from their store, and one that lets you read
comic book files.
(The
comic -
reader app ComicZeal does a great job presenting
comics in this fashion.)
The
reader lets you read
comics purchased via in -
app purchases.
The
app is a digital
comic book
reader and not a CBR
reader.
The
app isn't just a
comic reader, but a complete digital
comic store, including in -
app purchase for
comics from twenty different
comic publishers (though not giants DC and Marvel) and several individual
comic writers.
With the launch of the latest version of its
app, Archie
Comics is combining two different types of digital
comics services:
Readers can buy
comics one at a time (as they do with comiXology and
Comics Plus) or they can subscribe to an «all - you - can - eat» service that allows them to read thousands of
comics for a single... [Read more...]
Onyx and Icarus have both released Vanilla e-ink
readers that run Android, and allows users to install their favorite
comic reading
app.
Many
comics benefit from the exposure of being on a multi-publisher
app or storefront, but Image has built an impressive audience with titles like The Walking Dead and Saga and may be gambling that those
readers will take the time to seek them out on the new platform.
The
apps allowed
readers to download up to six
comics to for offline reading, which many
readers felt wasn't enough, and as I noted in my review of the iOS
app, it was often hard to find specific
comics.
One thing that takes getting used to is that unlike just about every
comics app, this
reader doesn't turn the page with a swipe — you have to use the arrows.
Now a new iPad
app, Scrollon, will allow creators and
readers to abandon the panels and pages that have long defined
comics.
The Nook folks are also giving new
readers an incentive to set up an account now: They are giving away a free Superman sampler
comic to anyone who downloads the upgraded
app and sets up a new account.
And it's all presented as DRM - free PDFs, which means you can download the
comics to any device you like and read them with any PDF
reader app — no proprietary
app needed.
You won't find Comixology, Kobo, Nook, Moon +
Reader or thousands of awesome e-reading, eBook, manga or
comic book
apps.
I spoke to Steinberger shortly after the launch, and he was pretty excited that comiXology could offer 100
comics, with 40 more in the queue, and that
readers could buy them in -
app rather than having each
comic be a separate
app, which had been the paradigm up till then.
With the launch of the latest version of its
app, Archie
Comics is combining two different types of digital
comics services:
Readers can buy
comics one at a time (as they do with comiXology and
Comics Plus) or they can subscribe to an «all - you - can - eat» service that allows them to read thousands of
comics for a single monthly fee (similar to Marvel Unlimited).
In addition,
readers can earn in -
app currency, called Narrs, which allow them to read more
comics (the first two episodes are free, subsequent chapters are not).
Clearly, while comiXology and
Comics Plus are designed for
comics readers who are looking for a variety of new
comics, the Ape
apps are designed for gamers and other casual users who are very interested in one property.
These new features come in addition to the improvements added in the latest release of their iOS
app, which allow the
reader to fit the
comic to the width of the screen and view two pages at once in landscape mode.
You won't find a single
comic app by a mainstream company anywhere on
app world.The only reading
app available is Press
Reader, which gives you newspaper replicas of thousands of papers in the world.
Ownership of the
comic you purchased is very real and tangible, giving
readers the ability to back them up locally or use another
app to read them on.
Comics Plus is the kind of portal - style
comic reader that makes it easy to use as your go - to
app.
Now if only they would develop a 9 inch model with a headphone jack, expandable memory, and access to specific e-reader designed productivity
apps, like email,
comic and pdf
readers.
I was hoping to find a
comic book
reader app — something the NOOK Color's display would really be suited for — but nothing at this point.
To further enhance the mobile reading experience on the iPad, the Marvel Comics
App features multiple viewing modes, taking
readers panel - by - panel through the
comic book in a smooth, action - packed progression using just the swipe of a finger.
Comixology's
apps include a store - finder database that points
readers at brick - and - mortar locations where they can buy
comics in the flesh.
Guided View was created so that the Comics
app could lead a
reader through a traditional
comic page frame by frame, but Brown said he was using camera panning for a «kinetic feel,» even though there's actually no «original»
comic page in the work.
Getting rid of in -
app purchases «is a very big deal,» Conway wrote, «because it strikes to the heart of what made Comixology's
app a near - perfect venue for discovering and falling in love with new
comics, a venue creators and publishers have been searching for since the collapse of mainstream newsstand distribution in the late 1970s - early»80s: it destroys the casual
reader's easy access to an impulse purchase.
Did the Kobo Vox have other
comic book
reader apps or are you talking about
comic book content acquired through the Kobo
app?
There are many great applications here such as the Kindle
Reader, Kobo
Reader,
Comic Book
apps, and many more!
The software supports facing pages, double - page spreads, and right - to - left page turns (most common in manga), as well as Kindle Panel View, which allows
readers to view the
comic one panel at a time (in a flow specified by the creator), which makes for an easier read on small devices such as the Kindle Paperwhite and the iPhone and Android
apps.
Check it out at http://goodereader.com/
apps/ You can also download the new
APP CLIENT which automatically installs and updates all Android e-reading
apps, games,
comic book
readers and tons more!
You can download popular reading
apps directly from Google Play, such as Google Books, Amazon, Nook, Moon +
Reader, Droid
Comic Viewer, or anything else your heart desires.
Where is Netflix, Where is Hulu +, Kindle
Reader, Nook
Reader, Aldiko, Droid
Comic View and Google Currents are but a few of the
apps we offer.
For each
app we also listed instances where the universal
app is available, for
readers who may also use iPhones to read
comics.
NARR8 is a free iPad
app with interactive stories, articles, & motion
comics for
readers, dreamers, and explorers.
Comic book
reader apps for Kindle and the Kindle section are routinely the most popular places on my blog: http://www.comicbookreaderguide.com/kindle/ I have no data to back this up... but my best guess is just the sheer ubiquity of Amazon — it may doing more for mainstreaming digital
comics as medium then folks might think.
Readers who purchase titles in the
Comics app also get access to them in their Web - based
reader, so even if you don't have your iPad or iPhone handy, you can still view your
comics on other operating systems and hardware.
In our previous post about
comics readers, we looked at
apps that let you load
comics from your own collection and from publishers who make DRM - free versions of their titles.
In general, they have a policy of not allowing super-sexy
comics or other material for in -
app purchase (violence seems to get a pass), perhaps because they see different audiences for the two types of reading — and it may be that younger
readers are more likely to use in -
app purchases than the grownups.
Of course, if you need e -
reader /
comic book
apps, head over to Good - Ereader
App Store that also plays host to a lot more
apps.
Certainly, selling a title through Amazon or iTunes has the potential to reach a wider new
reader audience than selling a title through a
comics - specific
app.