App Store Submission

SA Rock

I've finally been able to hit the "submit" button for the Southern Alberta Climbing Guidebook.  Barring any unforeseen rendering glitches it should take 5-10 business days to process.  That means an arrival date right around Canada day.

I haven't finalized the price, but I'm thinking 4.99.  That means about 3.50 per app: requiring about 100 downloads to break even for this year's publishing costs, and about 60 per year thereafter. Around here I think 100 downloads is a bit overly optimistic, but guidebooks really are more of a community service project than anything else.

4th Edition

I plan on updating the app in late August, and will try to do a yearly update thereafter.  After 1 year, I'll take a look and see if I want to get rid of the update feature and do a one-time submission for $250 (or spend lots of time figuring Adobe's phone gap publisher and a deeper level of how apple's submission / development processes work.  Doubtful.)

I'll probably try for the Android Store here in a week or two.  I'll need some time to recuperate from all the paper work required to get it through the app store.


Feeback on the price.....?  Most of the other guides are selling at around print retail - $8 to $30.  More for the big areas (2000 routes) less for the smaller local areas (300 routes).  I just can't see that making sense for a self-published guide to a bunch of crappy cliffs.