[Lazybones]

I've been experimenting with a lot of price ranges. I have a novella and the first book in a trilogy available free, with the subsequent books for sale at $2.99. When I charged for all of the books in the trilogy, sales were about 5% of what they have been since I offered the first book for free. They were $4.95 on B&N for a while, and not surprisingly sold only a handful of copies.

I have other standalone books for sale for $2 and $0.99 respectively. They are actually selling fewer copies than the $2.99 books, but I'm not sure how much the free initial volume is affecting that. I set the price of the $0.99 book low because it's fairly short (50k words). I actually think it's a good introduction to my work, and may offer it for free at some point to draw more attention to my other books.

I'm working on a new series (which will probably be four books) now, with the first two books published. The first book was selling poorly at $2, so I recently lowered the price of that initial book to $1 when I published the second volume. I've seen a slight uptick but it hasn't been long enough to draw conclusions yet. These are shorter books than my first trilogy (70k words each compared to about 200k), so I felt they should be at least a little cheaper. When I publish the third book later this year I'll probably offer the first book for free and hopefully see the same boost I saw with the trilogy.