Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing has just added an early access feature that will be a boon for indie authors and small presses. Comixology Guided View is now available for creators to to develop their own comics and manga. You can now import a PDF Comic book, create panels, specify mask color for Guided view transitions, and preview instantaneously. This feature is only … [Read more...] about Guided View for Comics now available from Kindle Direct Publishing
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Amazon Unveils Send to Kindle Functionality on iOS
Amazon has just pushed out an update for Kindle for iPad and iPhone today that introduces Send to Kindle. It has integration with Safari and you can select Kindle from the list of options where you can forward documents, news articles, scholarly research or your favorite tech blog to the Kindle app. In 2014 Amazon purchased the digital comic platform Comixology. They did a … [Read more...] about Amazon Unveils Send to Kindle Functionality on iOS
Madefire Launches Windows 8 App and Celebrates with New Transformers Series
Motion comic pioneer Madefire has just signed a deal with Hasbro and will be giving away a new five issue Transformer series away for free. Madefire is hoping to capitalize on the new film coming out at the end of the month and drawing attention to their Windows 8 app, launched last week. Transformers: Punishment is all-new original content developed within the current IDW … [Read more...] about Madefire Launches Windows 8 App and Celebrates with New Transformers Series
Who Uses ComiXology? Part II
The day before New York Comic Con, the comiXology folks invited the press to their office for a presentation about their user groups and a chance to hear some actual comiXology users talk about their comics reading habits. We covered the statistics in Part I of this story, and now here are some of the comments we heard from users. The group consisted of three men and two … [Read more...] about Who Uses ComiXology? Part II
IDW Comics Debut on Madefire Motion-Comic App
Madefire is a digital-comics app for iOS and the web that's a little different from most of the other comics apps: Its focus is on motion comics. Like comiXology in the Guided View mode, Madefire displays most pages a panel at a time, with the user controlling the timing of the panel reveals. Unlike Guided View, though, Madefire takes things a step further. Once you swipe to … [Read more...] about IDW Comics Debut on Madefire Motion-Comic App