Amazon already owns the most popular brand for ebooks, having debuted the Kindle ages ago and attracted consumers and publishers alike before other big players managed to establish a foothold in the industry. Now the company’s going after comics. It could continue to expand its library of Kindle editions, but the speedier approach would be the buy the best competitor out there. So that’s what Amazon is doing. The company has just announced plans to acquire comiXology, the makers of a popular digital comics platform, not to mention a couple of great Android comic book reading apps.

• DC Comics Partners With ComiXology, Unveils Their New App
• [Holy Digital Distribution, Batman!] DC Comics And Graphic Novels Now Available On The Google Play Store
• Marvel Drops Official App In The Android Market, Makes Buying Comics Even Easier
• Amazon’s Kindle App For Android Gets Updated To Support Kindle Format 8, Cloud Backup Of Email-To-Kindle Files

Amazon Inks Deal To Acquire ComiXology was written by the awesome team at Android Police.