The Incredible (Maybe) Shrinking Collection: Graphic.ly Sells To Blurb, May Close Down Servers

So a couple years ago, we reported that Graphic.ly, one of the early digital comics retailers, was shutting down its retail store and closing up its app to new customers. And at the time, we worried, even though Graphic.ly had announced that you could still get your books through their app (provided you already had it, since the instant they announced the closing of their digital retail store, they pulled their app off of Apple and Android), that the day would come when Graphic.ly shut down their servers and you might lose access to the books that you paid for.

But hey, that all happened two years ago! Nothing could possibly change the status quo for the books you bought, right?

Right?

Blurb, which lets authors self-publish and print their books, is buying Graphicly, a platform that lets authors publish and distribute e-books, with a specific focus on image-heavy content like comics and photography…

This is an acquihire [sp], with the six employees who formed Graphicly joining Blurb. As part of that process, Graphicly will be shutting down in the next 30 days.

Dammit.