{"id":11631,"date":"2015-07-07T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2015-07-07T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:07:08","slug":"comixology-3-7-makes-the-best-of-the-amazonapple-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/comixology-3-7-makes-the-best-of-the-amazonapple-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"ComiXology 3.7 Makes the Best of the Amazon\/Apple Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/06\/comixology-37-new-app-makes-the-best-of-the-amazonapple-situation\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/06\/comixology-37-new-app-makes-the-best-of-the-amazonapple-situation\/\">\n<p>When ComiXology was bought by Amazon last year, the company almost immediately ripped all in-app purchases out of the iOS version of its popular comic-book-reading app. Amazon wasn&rsquo;t interested in paying Apple 30 percent of its in-app sales, Apple wasn&rsquo;t interested in negotiating terms, and comic book readers could no longer buy and read comics with a couple of taps.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The lack of in-app purchases is a dealbreaker for some people, though I don&rsquo;t mind it too much&mdash;especially now that the ComiXology app has been redesigned, and thanks to some major improvements to the ComiXology web site. Recently ComiXology added one-click purchases to its site, which was already redesigned to work great on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Is this approach as good as buying issues via an in-app purchase? No, it&rsquo;s not. And without in-app purchases, you lose the ability to finish an issue and tap to buy and read the next issue in the series&mdash;a dangerously expensive form of binge reading. But ComiXology has clearly put a lot of thought into making the experience as good as possible, given Amazon&rsquo;s refusal to cut Apple in on sales.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: When ComiXology was bought by Amazon last year, the company almost immediately ripped all in-app purchases out of the iOS version of its popular comic-book-reading app. Amazon wasn&rsquo;t interested in paying Apple 30 percent of its in-app sales, Apple wasn&rsquo;t interested in negotiating terms, and comic book readers could no longer buy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,91,38,101,1234,522,31,26],"class_list":["post-11631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-comixology","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11632,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}