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Originally Posted by simonroyle
Would like to seek the forum's advice on pricing.
The two prices I am considering are USD2.99 and USD4.99. My question is: how many of you would NOT buy at the higher price simply as a matter of principle?
Look forward to the answers.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by dreams
If the author is an unknown (and a non-DRM ebook), I will pay up to USD3.99 as below.
USD 0.99 I just buy it.
USD 1.99 I just buy it - I'll take a chance
USD 2.99 I'll take a chance only if it really grabs my attention.
USD 3.99 Usually, only if I have noted comments from others who have the same reading tastes that I have.
USD 4.99 I hold off as I have enough to read on my TBR list.
I will pay more for works by authors I have read and liked.
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My comments are a little different, but keep in mind that I seem to be different than most of my MR friends in that I've never been a book purchaser, really. I grew up getting probably 95% of my total books and 99% of my fiction books from the library (no charge!), so my list goes like this:
Free- if it looks interesting, I'll download it. I don't consider it to be any "less" than any book I pay for, but if I like it, I'm much more willing to buy a sequel or another book by that author (I have done this for several authors already, many of them MR members)
USD 0.99- If I like the author already no problem! if it's a new author to me, I'll take the chance if the book looks really interesting and it grabs me
USD 1.99- if I like the author already, I'll *probably* get it, if it's a new author, it has to look *really* good to me and/or have many positive comments from people whose reviews I trust
USD 2.99- if I *loved* the author previously, I will buy it, otherwise I'm unlikely to buy it unless it looks super incredibly good to me and I have heard lots of positive comments. I still use the public library for ebooks and pbooks both, so I'm more likely to visit the library or find cheaper books to purchase.
USD 3.99 and above, I'm unlikely to buy in most cases, and almost certainly won't buy a new author.
Strangely enough, I will flip through a pbook to determine interest, but I do not read samples. Maybe I should, and if the sample is available to look at online without a download, I probably would, but if I'm going to actually download a book, or any part of it, then I'd rather just get the whole thing. And I probably won't pay a lot for it, without it being a "proven" author to me.
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