ComiXology: iTunes’ #3 Top Grossing iPad App Of The Year
Up 7 Spots From 2011 And The Only App In Top 10 Two Years Running!
With
Over 2 Billion Served
December 17, 2012 - New York, NY – ComiXology
– the revolutionary digital comics platform available across the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle
Fire, Windows
8 and the
Web – announced today that the Comics by comiXology iOS app charted as
iTunes’ #3 Top Grossing iPad App of 2012 and is the only app repeated in the
top ten in both 2011 and 2012, showing remarkable power in the fickle world of
apps by moving from #10 to #3.
ComiXology
also revealed today that they have served over 2 billion pages of comics since
the inception of the platform just three short years ago.
“We
started comiXology because we believe that – with a great digital experience –
graphic novels and comic books will be much more widely enjoyed,” said
comiXology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. “Actually climbing the top ten
year-over-year – and the only app to do that, no less – speaks volumes to the
quality of work both the comiXology team and our amazing publishers and
creators have done this year. We’re not anywhere near done yet but we’re
clearly off to a good start.”
“This
is a spectacular way to end what has been a spectacular year,” said comiXology
co-founder John D. Roberts. “It’s clear that people want to buy where they want
and read what they want, and only comiXology delivers this amount of amazing
content with a consistent shopping and amazing reading experience on every
major platform.”
2012
marked a year of records for comiXology, including both the 50 millionth and
100 millionth downloaded comic from comiXology, and many additions to the
comiXology store, including many graphic novels and collections, from literary
fiction to biographies, science and superheroes. It also marked the addition of
Windows 8 to the buy once, read anywhere platform.
ComiXology’s
top ranking digital comics platform has over 30,000 comics and graphic novels
to read from over 75 of today’s hottest publishers, comiXology offers the
widest selection of digital comics anywhere. ComiXology’s availability on the
iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web makes it the best
digital comics platform for newly interested, current and lapsed comic and
graphic novel fans.
About comiXology:
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere,
comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. With the
development of the comiXology digital comics platform - with buy-once,
read-anywhere availability across across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle
Fire, Windows
8 and the
Web— comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy
comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad
app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of
the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices,
comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been
turned into a comic book fan.
