Dieselt Sweeties creator R Stevens decided to create an eBook using Apple’s newly released iBook Author. The result was a month’s worth of comics that was outputted as a PDF ebook. He estimates that it was downloaded 10,000 times.
From GigaOm:
Response to the format has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stevens said in a blog post, but there are some downsides. First, he says bandwidth required to provide the downloads is a problem, which could be overcome by selling the via the iBookstore, but that entails additional costs and operating within the confines of Apple’s marketplace. Stevens says this isn’t palatable since he “[doesn’t] like the idea of readers being geographically or economically restricted from downloading [his] comics.”
His mom must really like that book!
Congrats, RS!
Very good to hear. I am looking at publishing one by the end of the summer. I bet I get at least 12 downloads…..
Mark Tatulli….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So that’s 10,000 paid or free downloads?
Looks like it was free and termed an ‘experiment’. I don’t know much about iBooks, but if it IS possible to monetize without Apple taking a big bite (sorry), this might lead to something.