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Originally Posted by UntreedReads
Hi Marcy,
If the $9.99 price point was too high, what would you have paid for a similar work of 85,000 words? Is Clea's Moon at $7.99 more attractive for a full-length? Also, knowing that although it was $9.99 the title was 25% off at Smashwords and 20% off at CoffeeTimeRomance, did that sway your mind at all?
The only thing that has me a little puzzled is why it should make a difference whether we charge $9.99 being an independent publisher or Random House charges $12.99 for an ebook of the same length. The writer's work is the writer's work. I don't believe it should be necessary for an author to expect to earn $2.99 to $5.99 on a full-length work just because they are with an "independent" publisher. This would also seem to indicate that there is less value in being with us than a NY publisher, and I'm afraid I don't see that either. Perhaps you could clarify?
Thanks,
Jay
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Hi Jay-
The word count doesn't make a difference to me, except that I expect it to be in the full novel range.
I typically won't spend $7.99-$9.99 for an author I've never heard of. I only even buy previous favorite authors for that much.
I said I've been spoiled. I used to be able to massage the Fictionwise system so that I spent an average of less than $2.50/book, even though some of the books I was buying cost $20. I will miss that greatly. Plus I buy most of the webscriptions at Baen, a "NY Publisher" and there I get 4 ebooks for $15.
There are many indie books out there that are a lot cheaper. I don't say that the book isn't worth $9.99 or that that isn't the right price, I'm just saying it seems a lot in my probably spoiled opinion.
I went to check it out on Smashwords after the decrease to $7.99, but now the 25% off code now only gives 7% off, or the same price I could have gotten the book at when it was $9.99 and 25% off.
Thanks for listening though.
-Marcy