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Originally Posted by SteveK
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
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Thanks again Steve!
I think a lot of people would eventually buy a particular volume that appeals to them since each seems to have a definite topic. Volume two covers the colonies, Volume Three covers the American Revolution, etc. They actually work as stand alone books. Obviously if people buy them all, that would be great but I actually expect most people to target specific ones once they are all out.
I have a 9th volume that is only 110 pages and covers the Depression and start of WWII. It's very sad for me seeing it end but I'll have to go through stuff at my mom's place to see if there is anything written that he never got around to transferring.