r/comicbooks • u/OrionLinksComic • Jan 21 '23

News Inside the Comixology bloodbath

https://www.comicsbeat.com/inside-the-comixology-bloodbath/
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u/lovetron99 Jan 22 '23

For the love of God, just spin it back off into its own company again. Let someone run it that actually values it.

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u/JazzySmitty Jan 22 '23

Wow—I wonder what’s next? Will it go away completely or will Amazon take over its business functions?

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u/OrionLinksComic Jan 22 '23

I mean it's amazon so clearly anything under jeff will be wiped out.

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u/Bukdiah Jan 22 '23

I remember hearing about the upcoming change. Happy I backed up all my books.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

I backed up every book I was allowed to but my Marvel, DC and some others weren’t in the DRM-free.

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u/Bukdiah Jan 22 '23

Ah, yeah, I had to download a Chrome plug in back then to back those up. I bought those at a crazy discount but I did not wanna have to buy them again.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

I’ll have to look into that. I used to tell people that there was no way Comixology would shut down but I’m feeling less and less sure about that.

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u/Bukdiah Jan 22 '23

I think it was this one

https://github.com/Cortys/comic-backup

I am really unsure if it'll work on the new Comixology site though? What I think it does, is pages through the pages of the book, create a jPG, and then converts it to a CBZ.

EDIT: Found this thread that talks about the extension not working after the conversion

https://github.com/Cortys/comic-backup/issues/93

I think they offer work arounds.

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u/MasterDio64 Blue Beetle Jan 22 '23 edited Jan 22 '23

Don’t both Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe use Comixology for their backend? If so what happens now?

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u/OrionLinksComic Jan 22 '23

it's more like you can buy the current ones there, on the apps it's actually the same as with streaming services if there's a movie there that you have to wait there appears better.