Comments on: Kindle Store Lessons? iPhone App Store Success Stories

By: Why being the first successful eReader App Store is important « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:30:54 +0000

[...] we see successful iPhone apps making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. We recently even had a game sell a million dollars worth of apps in its first 10 [...]

By: Kindle Store survival – Authors’ best-case future? « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:26:53 +0000

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By: Fredrik Wahrman

Fredrik Wahrman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:44:43 +0000

While I can’t say I’ve quite achieved those kind of figures yet, I must say that so far I’ve been really satisfied with the App Store. I’ve now had games out for about half a year myself, and while I started everything thinking that I’d just get some pocket change in return I must now say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised.

Sure, I haven’t reached those high ranks that would bring in the huge daily amounts, but I’ve managed to get to a level where my daily income is far above what my normal day job as a software engineer is paying me. And on the plus side, the income is still constantly growing so who knows where it will lead.

I’ve published a story about this on my own website, how I’ve gone from not even owning a mac to earning around $600 per day. You can find it here :
http://wahrman.fi/is-it-possible-to-earn-money-on-the-app-store/

By: Can you make money developing iPhone apps?

Can you make money developing iPhone apps? — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:02:44 +0000

[...] more success stories, you might read this excellent roundup from a blogger looking for iPhone insights to transplant to Kindle [...]

By: switch11

switch11 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:19:53 +0000

haha. good point. It’s 2008.

By: st

st — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:17:21 +0000

Good post! I’m willing to bet, however, that Rolando was not voted Best iPhone Game of 1998.

By: Paul Story

Paul Story — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:16:23 +0000

Thanks, Abhi. Very insightful.

I wonder if the lack of ‘free’ outside of the US is part of an experiment in the Kindle Store. Where US customers see a $0.00 price for a book, the UK and others see $2.30 (always?).

This is put down to VAT (on zero it would be zero) and delivery. But delivery of personal stuff is $0.99 per meg so there is a disconnect there.

If an author or publisher cannot charge zero, then the incentive to cut the floor from under their own feet is not so strong. Is this an Amazon play trying to make a buck from publishers giving away stuff or an attempt to raise the floor?