New Delhi: India's largest comics store Amar Chitra Katha is now available on Windows 8. The app will give the users access to all of their publications, available in over 20 languages.
Microsoft India has launched the official Amar Chitra Katha comic application, ‘ACK COMICS' exclusively for Windows 8 tablets and notebooks. Developed by Ninestars' App9 Digital Studio, the ACK Comics app is available for free download Microsoft users on Window 8 tablets and notebooks
Amar Chitra Katha is synonymous with Indian fables from the great epics, mythology, history, literature and oral folktales. With more than 400 comics in 20 languages that have sold over 90 million copies to date, Amar Chitra Katha is a cultural phenomenon, popular across the world.
As an introductory offer, five comics book – Shakuntala, Birbal the Wise, Tirupati, Tenzing Norgay and Anant Pai – will be available free of cost to Windows 8 users. Each book can then be downloaded at the costs Rs 55 per copy. Downloaded comics can be accessed across multiple devices through a single user account.
Also, three more comic titles, will also be available for free, even after the first month.
The comics can be read on multiple devices using a single user account in either Flipbook mode (standard, page by page) or Panel-by-Panel mode (for ease of reading on smaller devices).
