After relaunching its desktop portal earlier this yr, the digital comics platform GlobalComix introduced plans for an app launch earlier than the finish of 2023. Sure sufficient, the firm has introduced that the public beta model of the GlobalComix app is accessible in the iOS App Store. For Android customers, the firm mentioned {that a} model for Android is coming very quickly.
Since it’s a public beta which, there are some things nonetheless lacking. Nevertheless the firm is keen for people to attempt it out and supply some early suggestions.
Some of the highlights embody
- Improved discovery. Just open the app and scroll down to discover curated and automatic lists of content material amongst our 40,000+ releases.
- Advanced search and filters. We have quite a lot of methods to search, type and filter, so you can discover precisely the stuff you’re searching for.
- Powerful studying expertise. Single or double web page, match to width, or vertical scroll? Set up the studying expertise the method you prefer it, and take a look at our panel-to-panel studying mode (we’re nonetheless working on it!)
- Track and manage. Add comics to your personal library. Track what you’re studying, what you need to read later, and choose up the place you left off.
Founded by Christopher Carter and Alessio Deiana in 2017, GlobalComix has definitely been making some huge strikes lately with many main publishers reminiscent of Archie, Boom and Image becoming a member of the platform. Moreover, earlier this yr the firm raised $5 million, bringing current investments to $6.5 million out of a complete providing of $9.5 million.
GlobalComix is more and more changing into considered one of the primary digital comics options that publishers are turning to following Amazon’s controversial transfer to de facto shutter the Comixology service and subsume it into Kindle over the previous yr.
With an increasing number of readers partaking with comics completely with webtoons on cellular apps, the viewers that’s primed for digital is bigger than ever earlier than. GlobalComix has been famous for selling its user-uploaded portal for small publishers. With the implosion of Comixology, a number of gamers have been transferring to proceed digital comics gross sales and unique content material. For occasion, Omnibus is yet one more digital comics platform that launched this yr and has additionally ramping up its game.
We’ll persevering with to preserve an eye fixed on the place GlobalComix goes from right here.
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