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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If you're asking what I personally feel I deserve for my books: I feel I deserve exactly what I ask to be paid for one book. And I ask for $2.50 per book. Whether that is for one book sold, or a million... all I ask is $2.50 per book. In fact, if you want to buy more than one book, I ask for less per book. And I do not feel that I'm being unfair in asking that... especially since no one is being forced to buy my books.
(And I'm still trying to figure out how I can scale that price for economies that are further out of sync with U.S./European currency, such as the Third World. Anyone's cost should be roughly analogous to a cup of coffee.)
Since writing is a hobby of mine, I am not trying to make my living at this... I am not trying to make enough to retire, to buy a boat, or a new house. So I do not have a dollar figure that I am hoping to earn from this venture. I just want what I consider to be a fair price per book, and I'm satisfied.
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Thank you.
BTW, I'm willing to pay a lot more for a good book (just spent 165€ on a particularly good edition of the Divine Comedy, which is PD), and no more than 2€ for a crappy one (like, say, Dan Brown or Lee Child).
So, maybe, I'm willing to pay more than you ask for.
As an hobby photographer, sometimes I'm asked to sell my photos. I've put a limit of income to 500€ a year. So, when I sold 100 photos or copies at 5€ each or two of them at 250€, they will become immediately free for everybody, even if there are other 100 people in queue with money in their hand. [I'm not there, yet...]
That's what I mean by to have a limit.
I understand your books will never do "enough" if somebody agrees to pay for them. They'll be PD in about two centuries from now... and
it's not unfair at all.
It's just another effect of the force who drives piracy (which, in contrast, is a crime in my country).
