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offering a selection of novels and comics authors like Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow is a great success

experience great authors such as Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow, which allows readers to pay the price of your choice for a collection of electronic books, broke all expectations, racking up sales of more than U.S. $ 1.1 million (£ 700,000) in less than two weeks.

Humble ebook package - an extension of ebooks experience in the Humble Bundle prices, which has already been applied to music and games - was launched on 9 October - offers customers a selection of novels and comics for award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors like Gaiman, Doctorow, Lauren Beukes, Paolo Bacigalupi, John Scalzi and Kelly Link. The package is "DRM", which means that readers are not limited to the number of times to download or copy the ebooks.

Although they are sold separately, the collection of books would cost $ 157, readers can choose the price you want to pay for the package. You can also choose how to allocate the payment: between authors, a selection of works of charity and Humble Bundle own organizer

So far, 80,625 packets of books were sold at an average price of $ 14.18 (if readers pay more than the average, you unlock additional content). The promotion ends today, and from this morning had been shot in $ 1,143,151.85, with a user pays a whopping $ 1238 for 13 pounds.

Beukes, whose novel by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Zoo City was part of the package, said he saw the first concept as "a crazy experience that I can put the book some news readers."

nebula winner Paolo Bacigalupi, whose story collection Six Stories pump and the other was in the Humble Bundle, okay. "For me, Humble Bundle appears to be an interesting experiment to see how low-risk individuals may value ebooks and how they behave with a variable pricing model. I had a positive experience in the past one of my editors just given DRM free ebooks for io9 book club - and our sales have increased with exposure to traditional advertising Humble Bundle looked like it could have this capability, but with the additional advantage that it introduces a system of actual sales and revenue opportunities, and of course, I had no idea .. it would be as successful as it was, "he said.

Humble Bundle are planning future e-book packages. Your business development manager Robert Martinez said the last two weeks had experience had an impact on ebooks scene "that can not be ignored."

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