Two features Bookwalker's desktop viewer has that Comixology never had is the ability to bookmark and make notes on pages that can be deleted later.

One of those features is being able to read the comic in fullscreen mode and being able to zoom in and out. While Bookwalker doesn't have a guided view like Comixology due to the simpler layout of manga pages compared to American comics, it still has features that enhance the reading experience. One thing Amazon can do in a future upgrade is figuring out an international license so that fans outside the US and UK can continue following their favorite series.Īnother feature Bookwalker and Comixology had in common prior to the Amazon merger was the ability to read digital books on desktops. Similarly, non-US or UK-based fans of comics from American publishers like DC, Marvel, and Image are not able to continue following their monthly comic series. International manga and light novel fans who can read Japanese are not able to purchase digital versions of their favorite stories from the Japanese Kindle store due to license restrictions.

While the merger with Amazon may have seemingly removed this barrier, it actually didn't and only ended up restricting comic purchases by region. It appears that I must request a refund for the Comixology purchases so that I can purchase them from the Kindle store.Comixology also had global versions of its store prior to the Amazon merger but rarely sold comics translated in other languages and incorporated international taxes and fees. However, editions purchased through the Comixology store do not appear on my Kindle Oasis. I guess my recourse is to request a refund on all of the issues that I bought today, or at least the ones that I haven't downloaded and then re-purchases them through the Amazon Kindle store.īought some black and white (mostly) manga from the Amazon Kindle store and was able to read it on my Kindle Oasis device.

Therefore, I was surprised to learn that those purchases would not appear on my Kindle Oasis device. My mistake was that at the time, I was reading on my laptop/tablet-convertible. So after 5 or so issues, I say to myself, 'gee whiz, I might as well purchase the rest of the series since I'm having blas!.' I was delighted to purchases issues of 'Knights of Sidonia' one by one on Amazon and delighted to see them appear on my Kindle Oasis.

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