Donnageddon,
Yes, the US-Amazon price tag is out of control, I already submitted a revised price ($14.99 USD) to them but have to wait a bit before it actually migrates through the various processes. Until then we'll just have to push the eBook version. I'm also having grief though with that as Amazon seems to be posting $5.77 on some pages but $3.77 on others - very confusing.
What's interesting is that here in Australia, that price ($24 AUD) is considered the 'norm' for a 120,000 word novel, however as the USD/AUD exchange rate has shifted from 0.7 -> 1 it's meant that everything has now gone out of shape, part of the joy of multiple currency pricing.
Soon the local (AU) pricing will also be able to drop as well because Lightning Source is opening up a printing service within Australia, so shipping will be vastly cheaper.
Desertgrandma,
I really was a bit of a bombshell when things just didn't pan out. To add salt to the wound it was something that was used against us by some others trying to wedge their way into our operations (sad thing is, this said person's own attempt at campaigning only resulted in 20 hits). I do have to say though, since throwing away the cold-sale/shotgun sales approach and reverting to my strength (forum participation) things have looked a LOT nicer.
Attached is a shot from Google's analytics page - I'll let you determine about where in the graph I started infesting forums again
Paul