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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
Well what I'm not saying Frahse is that I want to sell a book for $25. Where did you get that from? Did you really sell 100,000 copies of your book?
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Justin, first off let me say that I was responding using mostly what was in your comments: 99 cents, a few days, etc.
I added a few things that incorporated those items and ran down the field with them.
(That is the kind of thing that any person that writes does.)
I used "$25.00" only because I wished to indicate a significant work by a significant author.
The important things that a beginning author or for that matter any "under appreciated" author should be interested in besides expanding their own experience and skill, is exposure, name recognition, and an idea of how others see his or her work. To get those things they need to entice readers, publishers, and reviewers into noticing their writing, their stories, and their books.
I remember one day walking into the news stand (old fashioned kind that has largely disappeared these days) and seeing a small display at the counter. "Free book." I went on by, perused the magazines, the new paper backs, and came back to the counter. "What's this?" "Free book. They are trying to promote this writer."
I got it. It was a fair sized paperback, and then later I realized that it was still only about half the first volume of the "Wheel of Time" series. Of course if you are familiar with Fantasy and Sci-Fi, you know the name.
Now my comment to you is this. "If Robert [f***ing] Jordan and his publisher can give away his book, who the heck do you think you are to have a fit about a 99 cent price on a digital copy.
Get real man. You gotta do what you gotta do!