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Originally Posted by rantanplan
...while the website will absolutely be integrated into the amazon website during 2022, it also iterated the the user interface for the comiXology app (iOS and Android) will receive a much needed refresh and that the app will stay...
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Personally I wish it were the other way around. I don't give a crap about the app. It's the website that matters. There are publishers that insist their comics be sold DRM-free: Image, Fantagraphics, Calibre, I forget who else.
Currently, when you buy from one of them, you can download the file as a .cbz or .pdf. Check here:
Maggie the Mechanic. Below the description, there are three icons: 17+, HD and a Download icon. Tha third icon lets you know you can download a DRM-free copy if you purchase it.
You cannot do so on the app. If you look at the same book I mentioned, you will only see two of the three icons.
So unless that behavior is integrated into the app (which I doubt, based on Amazon's treatment of DRM-free ebook publishers like Tor and Baen), the ability to download will go away.
There's also a handy Chrome plug-in that lets you download and back-up files that you have purchased from less enlightened publishers. I'm assuming that will also go away with the ComiXology website.
As for downloading with Kindle for PC, yes, I do that already. But files downloaded using that method are a third or less the size of CBZs downloaded from ComiXology as the images are lower resolution.
This is not good news.