For authors with established audiences (at breadpig we stick to webcomics) the Internet has been a fabulous publishing boon. We're approaching 35,000 copies sol

For authors with established audiences (at breadpig we stick to webcomics) the Internet has been a fabulous publishing boon. We're approaching 35,000 copies sold of xkcd: volume 0 (now available in meatspace!) and Randall is getting a majority of the profits. Breadpig isn't the first publisher to do that, but it's going to be really hard convincing popular webcomic artists to take a typical book publishing deal. And for now, there are still plenty of us who enjoy reading deadtree versions of our favorite webcomics - delicious irony!