05-27-2010, 12:54 PM | #1 |
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Pricing Decisions
I enhanced my copy of Kim (by Rudyard Kipling) that's here on Mobileread, and put it up on the Kindle Store.
There are, of course, loads of versions of Kim on the Kindle store, but, not to be modest, mine's the best, in terms of the quality of the text and the formatting. And mine also has some rather nice illustrations done by Kipling's father. It's been up in the store for a month now. I priced it at $2.99, more expensive than the cheapest editions up there, but cheaper than many. It sold 4 copies. Not too good. Some of the cheaper (but much nastier) editions have (judging by the sales rank) been selling many more copies. So, I've just lowered the price. To $0.99. I'll leave it there for the next month and see how things go. Hopefully I'll sell enough more to make up for the reduction in price. I must admit that one of the things that prompted the change in price was that I was vastly impressed by our own alvico's success with her novel, Thin Blood, a mystery/thriller. Of course, a lot of that success must be down to it being an excellent novel (the sample I read certainly impressed me). But the price probably didn't hurt either. And I suppose an unknown publisher has some of the same difficulties as an unknown author. For those who've missed her announcement in the Shameless thread - Thin Blood is currently hovering at the #16 point in the whole of the Kindle Store! I'd be pleased just to see my edition of Kim start outselling those quick & dirty Gutenberg text conversion editions! |
05-28-2010, 03:18 PM | #2 |
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Shameless Thread? What's that?
Sorry, Mobileread noob here. |
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05-29-2010, 09:03 PM | #4 |
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It's an interesting discussion to start. A lot of the epubbers I've looked into go between $2.99 to $6.99 depending on the word count.
The interesting thing is, according to The Inflation Calculator, dime store novels cost $2.20 today. I'm referring, of course, to the 1920's style dime store novels, or penny dreadfuls, or whatever you want to call them But, along the same token..my 1948 copy of "Border Kid" by Max Brand would cost $26.00 by today's inflation. Last edited by jaxx6166; 05-29-2010 at 09:36 PM. |
05-29-2010, 10:53 PM | #5 |
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Here's a stat I trot out when I want to illustrate how mass production and economy of scale hasn't worked in the publishing industry:
When I was a kid, my friends and I would go into town with two bucks each. We'd get a Big Mac meal for 99 cents, and with the other dollar, we could buy TWO paperbacks, or one paperback and a fistful of comic books. A few years ago, you could buy two Big Mac meals (with larger fries!) for the cost of a paperback. (In the past couple hears, fast food has caught up a little in the inflation, but still a paperback costs a whole lot more than a fast food combo.) |
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05-30-2010, 02:59 PM | #6 |
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Best of luck pdurrant!
Happy Memorial Day Everybody! Last edited by TC Beacham; 06-14-2010 at 03:05 PM. |
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