Vault Partners With Kajabi To Create Vault Unbound & Escape Comixology

Kajabi is an Irvine, California-based expertise firm that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and promote digital content material, to construct and handle web sites to monetize digital choices resembling on-line programs, membership communities and podcasts. Founded in 2010, with a brand new CEO as of 2021. Ahad Khan, it’s price round two billion {dollars}. In February 2022, former TikTook and Amazon government Sean Solme Kim joined the corporate as president and chief product officer.

Now, introduced at SXSW, Vault Comics is to companion with Kajabi to launch Vault Unbound, a brand new group base and digital comics studying portal. With the Comixology/Amazon points nonetheless at play, this is among the first strikes by comedian ebook publishers to regulate their very own digital comics future going ahead. And they intend to construct a first-of-its-kind fan group and digital studying expertise on the Kajabi platform.

Fans will have the ability to work together with creators and different group members, entry particular behind-the-scenes provides and first entry to product drops, attend particular digital occasions, and browse favourites from the Vault catalogue.  How lengthy the delay from print to digital will likely be, has not but been revealed – if any.

“Traditionally, publishers and entertainment companies have carried on behind closed doors, fencing fans off from their team and their development process. We think this is backward. We’ve learned that the more we open up our doors to our fans, the more we share with them about what we’re working on, the more we invite them in, the more excited and supportive they are of the stories we publish. So, we’re thrilled to finally build a platform that lets us open the door to our fans,” mentioned Vault CEO Damian Wassel. “Of course, the challenge has always been building the right kind of integrated platform to support and reward fan engagement. Kajabi offers everything we could need to create a place where fans can interact with one another, with our team and our creators, and have special one-of-a-kind experiences. We could not ask for a better platform.”

And I can not see any Kajabi blockchain or NFT involvement, which is a pleasant change. How many different publishers will go down the same route to flee the Comixology cage?