![]() Most notably, the Barnes&Noble line of Nook tablets, the 7 inch “HD” and the 9 inch “HD+,” both have seen their prices drop precipitously in just the last couple of weeks. Until now, that is, as market pressures and internal disruptions among the tablet makers has brought a significant and inescapable downward price trend among the Android entries. Yet, while clearly (and deliberately) less expensive, the price tags for the popular Android tablets have generally stayed above $200 dollars, especially on those from name brands or with good screens. Significantly less expensive, far less locked down software-wise than the iPad, and with a larger diversity in size and format, the “second” wave of Android tablets has finally created a widespread user base for digital comics on tablets that are not from Apple. Alternatives to iPads in the tablet world have been slow to take off, but the enormous penetration of Android phones has now propelled other tablets, with Google’s Nexus 7, the Samsung Tab line, the Nook line from Barnes & Noble and maybe most popularly, the Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. Of course, not everyone is in a position to afford an iPad (full size models currently start at $499 going up to $799, while the smaller iPad Mini is priced at $329-529) or resist tying themselves to the Apple ecosystem of devices and content. ![]() And comiXology’s Comics app has played a central and massively successful role in feeding those tens of millions of iPads with graphic content, presented cleanly and slickly. A big, bright screen with a very high resolution, combined with a powerful processor and a very mature operating system, reading comics on the iPad has been touted as a prime use case of the device almost since its debut in spring 2010. However, to really get the best experience of digital comics, many would recommend consuming them primarily on a tablet device of some kind, with Apple’s iPad as the iconic exemplar. ![]() Currently, the barrier to entry for the world of digital comics is not particularly high, as anybody with either a smartphone or a connected computer can buy and view comics from a variety of online retailers.
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