CBR: Digital Comic Resources: Digital Storefront Facelifts & "Cut the Rope"

[CBR News]

This week, comiXology and iVerse's storefronts get makeovers and offer big sales, "Cut the Rope" and Stan Lee come to digital comics and Digital Manga offers free "Vampire Hunter D."


Full article here.

[Lemurion]

I guess you've never tried to buy more than one book at a time from the new ComiXology store - it's a LOT less functional for buying multiple comics than its predecessor and that's its primary function. On the old store I could go down the list of new books and add the ones I wanted to my cart without ever leaving the page. I can't do that in the beta store, each time I click on a book it takes me to the cart and I have to reload the original page and look for my place all over again.

It makes buying anything over one or two books much more work and somewhat frustrating. It's a huge flaw and as long as it exists I'm going to stick with the old store.

It's disappointing to see such a big step backwards for the storefront's primary function.

(First rule of e-commerce - never make it harder for people to give you money.)

[NCatron]

I guess you've never tried to buy more than one book at a time from the new ComiXology store - it's a LOT less functional for buying multiple comics than its predecessor and that's its primary function. On the old store I could go down the list of new books and add the ones I wanted to my cart without ever leaving the page. I can't do that in the beta store, each time I click on a book it takes me to the cart and I have to reload the original page and look for my place all over again.

It makes buying anything over one or two books much more work and somewhat frustrating. It's a huge flaw and as long as it exists I'm going to stick with the old store.

It's disappointing to see such a big step backwards for the storefront's primary function.

(First rule of e-commerce - never make it harder for people to give you money.)

Yeah, I've sent them some feedback of my own on annoyances - this is why it's called Beta, if enough people complain it'll be changed before the official rollout.

My problem was that when viewing a series I have to click through to the issue to see the price of said issue. (Is the first issue free/discounted? Is the latest issue still full priced or $1.99 yet? Etc.)

[Lemurion]

Yeah, I've sent them some feedback of my own on annoyances - this is why it's called Beta, if enough people complain it'll be changed before the official rollout.

My problem was that when viewing a series I have to click through to the issue to see the price of said issue. (Is the first issue free/discounted? Is the latest issue still full priced or $1.99 yet? Etc.)

I've sent feedback, too. I'm just surprised they've made such a leap backwards in the most important functionality.