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Originally Posted by DavidRM
As someone who has 14 years experience selling what used to be called "shareware" (and is now called "business as usual on the Web"), I can assure you: If you don't put a price tag on your work, on one else will.
If you want to offer the book for free for a while, do that. Then raise the price later.
Put a price on your work that seems fair to you. Then stick by it.
-David |
Ditto, and I will add that if you are using Smashwords and decide to change the price of the book later; know that you will be in for the fight of your life to get the eBook pricing changed at all of SW distributors (Kobo, Diesel, Sony, etc.). I write this from experience. After over three months of sending emails to SW about updating the pricing of my ebooks, there are still some books that are priced at old rates. That would be fine if Amazon didn't respond to the competitive pricing where they will lower the price of your book to beat out competition. My point is to be careful when pricing your eBooks for free on SW or take them out of premium catalog distribution so that they don't get stuck at a lower price. I am still trying to get some of my eBooks priced right.
