The first ever comics sale on pay-what-you-want portal Humble Bundle is wrapping up tomorrow, and it seems to have been a success, with 38,847 bundles of digital comics sold, making a little over $397,000. As we reported earlier, Humble Bundle operates on a pay what you want model, with the buyer choosing to give all the money to the creator or to a charity – in this case the CBLDF.
There’s still time to get in on this offer, which makes copies of Saga, REvival, Chew, East of West and more top Image books available for what has averaged out to $10.
We’re told more comics bundles are on their way from Humble Bundle, so stay tuned.
Anatomy of a good deal: get digital versions of nine acclaimed Image graphic novels—including Saga, Chew, East of West, Walking Dead and more—pay what you want, AND send money to the Comic book Legal Defense Fund.
Win win win!
That’s the deal offered by Humble Bundle, a website that offers a pay-what-you-want model for top digital content, while helping charities. Consumers pay what they want and can to send money to charities or to publishers. They’ve already sold hundreds of thousands of video game bundles, as they are called, with more than 15 million bundles sold overall for more than $80 million, with more than $30 million going to various charities. While they made their name with video games, Humble Bundle has been getting more into e-books —this is their first comics bundle.
Humble Image Comics Bundle offers nine top Image books with a tiered pricing structure. Pay whatever yuo want (even a penny) for East of West Vol. 1, Lazarus Vol. 1, Morning Glories Vol. 1, and Fatale Vol. 1. By paying more than the average price (currently $9.35) you unlock Saga Vol. 1, Revival Vol. 1 and Chew Vol. 1. If you pay more than $15, you also get The Walking Dead Vol. 1 and 20. Nine graphic novels for $15? Good deal.
BUT THERE’S MORE! You can even choose how your payment is split up: between the comics creators and/or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
PLUS the digital comics are DRM free and available in a variety of formats Android, Kindle HD, iPad or even the Nook HD.
As we mentioned, this is Humble Bundle’s first foray into comics, but it’s a great way to help charity AND for readers to sample books they may not have picked up otherwise, so hopefully it won’t be the last.
The deal ends Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. PDT. Thus far, more than 11,000 bundles have been sold for more than $100,000 — we’ll check back next week to see the grand total.
Humble Bundle, an indie publishing site that offers pay-what-you-want eBook bundles, has a new bundle of eight eBooks available for a limited time.
The current eBook Bundle includes works from Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, Kelly Link, Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libby, Dennis Lee, and Cody Martin.
AppNewser has more: “If a buyer decides to pay more than the average price for the bundle, they’ll get two bonus novels: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Customers also have the option to donate part of their purchase to either The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or Child’s Play Charity.”
The bundle went on sale at 10am PT today. Readers have two weeks to bid.
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Nearly 40k copies sold is pretty damn sensational. Presumably a big chunk of those are “HB Customers”, and therefore “new to comics”. Good job!
-B
I got it even though I had already bought some of those comics in Comixology but to get downloadble copies and help the CBLDF for $10 books was a good offer.
It’s interesting that the average means not many of those buyers were interested in the Walking Dead comics. (You could only get them paying $15 books if I remember correctly)
For all I know this was the first all comics sale on the Humble Bundle, but the first Humble eBook Bundle back in October, 2012 included Gaiman and McKean’s Signal to Noise and five comics in the additional offerings a week after launch, including xkcd and two volumes of Penny Arcade. I gather that it did pretty well… http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/24/humble-ebook-bundle-post-mortem/
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