The Walking Dead Coming To Apple's iBooks

Robert Kirkman's critically acclaimed comic series The Walking Dead, is  the first Image Comic series to come to Apple's iBooks service.  All fifteen trade paperback volumes will be available, priced at $9.99 each, with Volume 1 being priced at $8.99.  The collections of The Walking Dead occupied more than half of the top 25 slots in Diamond Comics’ list of top-selling graphic novels of 2011. The debut of Image Comics’ best-selling title on iBooks is part of the publisher’s overall commitment to releasing their creator-owned properties in a variety of media. Besides being sold in retail stores, individual issues of Image comics are available on multiple electronic platforms.

The publisher expects to release more titles on iBooks in the coming weeks, beginning with John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Eisner-winning New York Times bestselling series Chew.