rbchv

Just when I thought I was the exception, it seems a lot of indie developers are fighting to get their payments from Mobclix.

This has been going on for months.

Some revealing links:

This forum thread started June 2012 and is still quite active: http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/105160-mobclix-payments-so-late-this-month.html

A class action suit. Almost $100k is owed just to the people who have commented: http://www.iwebss.com/iphone-ipad/478-class-action-suit-possible-against-mobclix-not-paying-indie-developers

http://www.imgrind.com/mobclix-not-paying-app-developers-allegedly/

I've recently read about several people who have been successful in selling their ebooks. Following successful entrepreneur's advice, I'm looking for a topic I know well enough and that has a big enough target audience. I arrived at the idea of making a CakePHP book.

When I was learning CakePHP myself, I suffered because all the available books were old and the framework has changed sufficiently to make them useless as a learning tool. I've found the following pros and cons:

PROS:

- PHP remains one of the most used languages for the web, and CakePHP is one of the most popular PHP frameworks.

- All existing books are really outdated.

- It's a topic I know well, and know common questions people will have when learning it.

CONS:

- Ruby, Python, etc are hipper and probably what more people want to learn.

Would you as a developer be interested in a CakePHP ebook? Any feedback regarding the idea?

Thanks