By James O'Toole @jtotoole April 14, 2014: 7:26 AM ET
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Amazon has set its sights on yet another corner of the media world with its purchase of digital comics platform comiXology, which was announced on Thursday. The New York Times has called comiXology "the iTunes of comics." The firm offers a digital platform for buying and reading comics, and claims to have been the highest-grossing non-gaming app for iPad last year.