This news is a little bit late, but today is the first time I've had a chance to write something.
A recently released update now means that comics can be read comfortably on the Amazon Kindle. Previously, the e-reader supported pdf files and could easily display images, but you couldn't zoom in to particular panels or places on the page. This meant that the text and detail of the images could be difficult to read.
This has all changed. The updated software that Kindle have installed on all users' devices now displays your comics one page at a time, then panel by panel for that page. This makes them a lot easier to read as the images are big enough that squinting is unnecessary. There are now hundreds and hundreds of comics for sale on the Kindle website.
The downside is that most comics weren't created to be read in a panel by panel format, so you could potentially lose some of the impact of the page. When artists/letterers/colourists/inkers create a page they have, up to now at least, done so with the knowledge that readers will look at the whole page first, then read it panel by panel. There are a few comics out there written for e-readers (DC's Ame-Comi Girls and Smallville are two examples), and you can see how they are put together and laid out differently. Also, the Kindle (not the Kindle Fire) can only display black and white images.
However for people like me who have a Kindle, don't want to carry lots of comics around, and are willing to sacrifice the colour or page impact, comics on the Kindle is a bloody great thing. Go forth and buy!
A recently released update now means that comics can be read comfortably on the Amazon Kindle. Previously, the e-reader supported pdf files and could easily display images, but you couldn't zoom in to particular panels or places on the page. This meant that the text and detail of the images could be difficult to read.
This has all changed. The updated software that Kindle have installed on all users' devices now displays your comics one page at a time, then panel by panel for that page. This makes them a lot easier to read as the images are big enough that squinting is unnecessary. There are now hundreds and hundreds of comics for sale on the Kindle website.
The downside is that most comics weren't created to be read in a panel by panel format, so you could potentially lose some of the impact of the page. When artists/letterers/colourists/inkers create a page they have, up to now at least, done so with the knowledge that readers will look at the whole page first, then read it panel by panel. There are a few comics out there written for e-readers (DC's Ame-Comi Girls and Smallville are two examples), and you can see how they are put together and laid out differently. Also, the Kindle (not the Kindle Fire) can only display black and white images.
However for people like me who have a Kindle, don't want to carry lots of comics around, and are willing to sacrifice the colour or page impact, comics on the Kindle is a bloody great thing. Go forth and buy!
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