Two SF novels by a UK author and with some good reviews – what to do with them? Leave them unloved on a quiet corner shelf where no-one looks, or try a new tack?
Prices, prices! How can anyone arrive at an appropriate price for a piece of writing? Well, according to many sources, there are people who won’t even give a first glance, never mind a second, to an indie book priced at 99 cents because it automatically must be awful. So, to keep happy those and other people who value a quality product and believe it should be priced accordingly, my two 100,000+ word novels are to be priced more ‘realistically’.
Varying discounting occurs through other distributors via smashwords, so the notional rrp for the smashwords versions of
Passengers to Sentience
and
Passengers to Zeta Nine
has been raised to $3.50 on the understanding that they will ultimately be discounted further down the chain. When pricing vs discount has eventually reached equilibrium, the price at the Amazon Kindle store will increase from 99 cents to $2.99.
Meanwhile, and prior to achievement of the blissful equilibrated state, a discount will be offered at smashwords. Hence, while the price at the Amazon Kindle store remains at the absurdly low 99 cents (74 pence or less in the UK), the discount via the two incredibly secret codes written in almost invisible ink below, will permit purchase at the unbelievably low price of 99 cents:
Passengers to Sentience secret 99 cent code
UL27V
Passengers to Zeta Nine secret 99 cent code
BG35X
If little of the above makes much sense, that is in large part a result of my having scant knowledge of economic principles and the science of pricing.
However, all you actually need to know is:
smashwords
secret codes
99 cents
If anyone out there still reads books made from dead trees, the Amazon discount on the paperback version of Passengers to Sentience is running at an incredible 57%, giving a bargain price of only $6.46.