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I'm an independent comics creator who does graphic novels that take a while to read, not single issues. I'm also someone who spent all day Thursday trying to get my GN into a .mobi, without much success: https://vine.co/v/M5M3lLEwz6E

I am really happy about this. Because perhaps it will mean I will soon be able to just upload a .pdf of my comic to Amazon and not worry about anything beyond how much to charge for it.

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Publishing on Amazon is currently quite horrible, so I am sorry to say that if you use history as a guide, then you are in bad luck. For example, current publishers get less money if they use bigger data. The result is blurry pictures on hi-res screens. Awful policy.

I've not had a problem with the comics we've gotten from Amazon. If anything, the reader on the Kindle Fire HDX takes a little getting used to because you need to click to zoom to read a good bit of it. I've tried reading them on my laptop but can't get into it; I can't read books on a horizontal screen. Things will be much better with electronic paper, so it will be like a comic book again. Sure, I could buy an actual comic book, but what fun is that?

That's a super excellent point! I wasn't really thinking about small individuals, as I'm not really very deep into comics. I just happen to love reading fiction and tend to devour whatever I stumble into.

Best of luck to you, this sounds like it could be a real boon.

A big part of what makes Comixology great is how well their Guided Mode works. That requires more than just a .pdf of the full pages.

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