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rudolf · 12-16-2011, 04:42 PM

The situation is: there is a book on photography; it contains not small amount of text, but also not so few black and white photographs. Whole ebook on Kindle takes almost 4MB.
This makes it impossible to publish it for 0.99$ on Amazon, of course.

But, the idea of boosting sales by setting the lowest price is tempting. Even as a time-limited offer, why not?

So here is a proposition: remove the pictures and publish text-only version. But, here is the question - does it makes sense at all? I mean, in my opinion it's really a nonsense, especially getting into consideration subject and the role photos have in this work.

Here you can see sample chapter, to let you visualize my problem:
http://13th-frame.com/chapters/did-you-see-fjords/

What do you think?
I'd appreciate any feedback!

12-16-2011, 04:42 PM	#1
rudolf Photographer & Author Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: none	Does the book on photography really need pictures? The situation is: there is a book on photography; it contains not small amount of text, but also not so few black and white photographs. Whole ebook on Kindle takes almost 4MB. This makes it impossible to publish it for 0.99$ on Amazon, of course. But, the idea of boosting sales by setting the lowest price is tempting. Even as a time-limited offer, why not? So here is a proposition: remove the pictures and publish text-only version. But, here is the question - does it makes sense at all? I mean, in my opinion it's really a nonsense, especially getting into consideration subject and the role photos have in this work. Here you can see sample chapter, to let you visualize my problem: http://13th-frame.com/chapters/did-you-see-fjords/ What do you think? I'd appreciate any feedback! Last edited by rudolf; 12-16-2011 at 08:07 PM.