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Originally Posted by neilmarr
As with covers, though, Jan, cover price can be misleading. I'd rather pay twenty bucks for a masterpiece of the writing and story-telling craft than waste ten hours' precious recreational reading time on a free or $0.99 piece of nonsense. Your own Risen, for instance, humbly priced as it was, paid me back every time I turned a page. That, I consider, is value for money. And it would have been at several times the price. Hoots. Neil
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Okay, I'll raise the price on
Risen to $25. Thanks for the tip!
Seriously, pricing is an interesting mental exercise. As you say, a good read is worth more, and I've said before on this forum that the
main investment people make in an author's book is their
time.
But, not everyone values a book the same, we come from various economic classes, finances vary from week to week, etc. So how do you figure out how much a book is worth?
I would never choose to read a bad book because it was cheap, but I've also spent $30 on a book and hated it. And many of the very best books are free...because they're in the public domain!
When I run out of
good books in the under-$10 category, I'll start looking at the $12.99, $14.99, etc. stuff. But I have to have a pretty compelling reason to spend that much now.