{"id":55587,"date":"2014-04-11T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55587"},"modified":"2014-04-11T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:28:45","slug":"amazon-buys-comic-book-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55587\/amazon-buys-comic-book-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys comic book publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc will buy New York-based digital comic book publisher comiXology for an undisclosed sum to beef up its entertainment content.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>ComiXology, which makes one of the top grossing apps for Apple Inc&#8217;s iPad tablet, was founded in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition comes as e-commerce company expands its slate of scripted shows and video games. Last week, it launched the Fire TV video streaming device.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Amazon<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon unveils Fire TV streaming device\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/55252\/amazon-unveils-fire-tv-streaming-device\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon unveils Fire TV streaming device<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon eyes free streaming TV services\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/54973\/amazon-eyes-free-streaming-tv-services\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon eyes free streaming TV services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon looking at pay-TV streaming?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/51986\/amazon-looking-at-pay-tv-streaming\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon looking at pay-TV streaming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc will buy New York-based digital comic book publisher comiXology for an undisclosed sum to beef up its entertainment content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,657,7743,7742],"class_list":["post-55587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-comixology","tag-digital-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55591,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587\/revisions\/55591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}