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Old 06-04-2012, 10:18 PM   #97
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You win.

I moaned a while back that readers were expecting books too cheap. Well, you win. Without consulting me, my publisher tossed my book in the bargain basement for 99c. Sure it's now selling 4 times as many, but earning me less. I suppose that at least I managed a few more 5-star reviews, all from strangers (for those who think good reviews only ever come from friends)
so if you want an absolute quality read for a pittance, you'll need to look for me. I'm not game to say more as an over-enthusiastic moderator likes to delete whatever I say. You'll have to search for me.

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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
A couple things:
1, Who are you? That's rhetorical. The point is, I don't know you from Adam and have no idea what quality you are going to deliver. Maybe if you had the reputation of (I dunno...what 'adult' author ever commanded a high cover price?) DH Lawrence? Then I would know I'm buying quality. But the point is we DON'T don't know, so why should we risk a cup of coffee that we know we'll get value from?
Note Stephen King and JK Rowling aren't here in this thread sweating over this.
2, $2.99 is a pittance but, what, $7.99 is fair compensation for a YEAR'S work?!
They are both pittances when figured as an hourly rate. That's never the point. The point is trying to get thousands of new readers to spend their pittance on YOU vs. all the others like you who are competeing not just for the pittance, but for hours of those readers lives that you expect them to spend on you.

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