While games dominated the App Store in 2013 in terms of top grossing apps, digital comic app comiXology has announced that it was the highest grossing non-game iPad app — for the third year running.
As of this writing, comiXology has sold more than 6 billion pages of material — a significant increase from the roughly 2 billion pages sold this time last year.
Outside of their own app, comiXology’s technology is also used in apps for both Marvel and DC Entertainment — both of which also placed in the Top 100 grossing iPad apps of the year: meaning that comiXology can lay claim to 14 percent of the non-game apps to appear on the chart.
Impressive stuff!
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
One response to “Games Aside, ComiXology Was The Top-Grossing iPad App Of 2013”
After reading this I still don’t know what this app is/does. The author obviously assumes the readers already know, but that’s the sign of a lousy/lazy writer.
Of course, I can and did google and found out about the app … but why should I have to? CofM is getting worse and worse with their pseudo-journalism.