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SteveK · 07-29-2011, 08:25 AM

James - one more comment on pricing. Although $8 for a book is certainly not a big deal, if you price all the planned 8 volumes at $8, it will cost approximately $64 to read the whole work. Frankly, I hesitate to start reading ANY author if I know it's going to cost me $60+ to read a series of books.

Since you're using other works of history as a pricing guide, for that same $60 or so I can buy at least 6 volumes of the highly-respected Oxford History of the United States series, each by noted historians and published by a prestigious University press, and each volume would be 700-800+ pages, not 300-400, so obviously those dollars would buy me more pleasurable reading time.

I do plan to buy the first volume and will then be able to decide if I want to buy future volumes, but I'd be much more inclined to buy the entire series if it didn't cost nearly $65 to do so.

Just a thought. I wish you well with your father's books.

Thanks.
SteveK

07-29-2011, 08:25 AM	#15
SteveK Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1017902 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Kindle PW, PW2, Kindle3, Kobo Glo, tablets, phone	James - one more comment on pricing. Although $8 for a book is certainly not a big deal, if you price all the planned 8 volumes at $8, it will cost approximately $64 to read the whole work. Frankly, I hesitate to start reading ANY author if I know it's going to cost me $60+ to read a series of books. Since you're using other works of history as a pricing guide, for that same $60 or so I can buy at least 6 volumes of the highly-respected Oxford History of the United States series, each by noted historians and published by a prestigious University press, and each volume would be 700-800+ pages, not 300-400, so obviously those dollars would buy me more pleasurable reading time. I do plan to buy the first volume and will then be able to decide if I want to buy future volumes, but I'd be much more inclined to buy the entire series if it didn't cost nearly $65 to do so. Just a thought. I wish you well with your father's books. Thanks. SteveK