DC's e-comics expand to a multiverse of devices

Mock-ups from DC Comics of the iPad, Nook, and Kindle displaying the company's books, now available in each device's proprietary e-bookstore.

(Credit: DC Comics)

Digital comics sales are on the rise, according to DC Comics, and the publisher today has started to expand its weekly books beyond its app.

Starting today, the Kindle Store, Apple iBookstore (iTunes link), and Nook Book Store will offer the same weekly issues previously limited to the Comixology and DC Comics apps. New issues of DC's superhero New 52 line, and its Vertigo imprint, will publish on the same day-and-date in the proprietary e-bookstores, the Comixology app, and in physical comic book shops.

"It's not a move (away from Comixology), it's an expansion," said DC Entertainment's Senior Vice-President of Digital, Hank Kanalz. "My charter is to go as wide as possible, and to expand to as many readers as possible. That's what this is." It also makes DC the first comics publisher to make its weekly periodicals available in the e-bookstores.

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