As Comixpedia mentions in their Year-end News Roundup, "many" people had issues with our experiment that we performed last June. While I acknowledged in our writeup that this was not a proper scientific experiment, I felt that the downward trend in sales of our micropayment offerings was evidence enough that it would not be making us a whole lot of money in the future.
The most common complaint was that our experiment only lasted a week, and was not enough time to make a proper analysis. So, we quietly kept the micropayment offerings available on our minicomics page, offering the electronic versions side-by-side with the pricier paper versions.
Tomorrow will mark six months since the official end of the experiment. In that time, we have sold 43 $0.25 electronic copies of our minicomics, for a total of $10.75 (before BitPass deducts its fees).
If six months is not enough time for you naysayers, let us know. Or find some other thing to nitpick about our experiment. Go buck wild. All I know is that we've literally sold hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise in the last hour or so, and eleven dollars worth of electronic minis in the last six months. If that doesn't convince you of the power of the combination of merchandising and free content, I don't know what will.
So feel free to keep discussing this if you'd like. Me? I have some comics to draw.