Ars Technica OS X review e-book

[kimmer]

Ars Technica OS X review e-book sold over 3,000 copies in first 24 hours, yet you can get it for free from their web site.

Short article:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ars-technic...first-24-hours/

Full article:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/ars-techn...-of-his-review/

QUOTE

The ebook is, ironically, absent from Apple’s own iBookstore. Because Ars could not publish the Lion review before Lion was released, as per Apple’s stringent non-disclosure agreement, Ars could not initiate Apple’s lengthy review process until it was too late.

“With Amazon, it’s actually easy. They don’t require an ISBN. You upload it, they check it for quality, and boom, it’s in the Kindle store. I think they took eight hours,” Fisher said. “Amazon was the only one fast enough, so they got the business.”

[Xairbusdriver]

If somebody paid for a free e-book, somebody certainly did "get the business!"

[kimmer]

 Well, they wanted an electronic version and didn't want to save all the web pages and create their own, so they paid. Personally, for a book that size I won't spend more than 99¢.

[Paddy]

QUOTE(kimmer @ Jul 28 2011, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 Well, they wanted an electronic version and didn't want to save all the web pages and create their own, so they paid. Personally, for a book that size I won't spend more than 99¢.

More money than sense, then, I guess! I got to about page 3 on that article and then got distracted by other stuff...it's a looooong one.