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Originally Posted by dadioflex
I've been following this thread with great interest, as a wannabe writer someday.., but pretty much kept out of because I feel like I'd be tripping round the feet of giants.
How about an iTunes type model with ratings and genre recommendation but with a twist on the pricing. You post your book online and anyone can download it for free. People who download the book can rate it but ratings don't appear for, say, a week or until there are a certain number received. Based purely on the number of downloads the price of the book rises from nothing to a maximum of maybe 5-10 bucks (I favour 5 bucks but I'm cheap.)
So as an unknown people download you and rate you. After a week or a fixed number of ratings that rating shows - this prevents an initial single bad review from jinxing you. If what you're offering is good word spreads, your ratings increase and as more people download your book the price goes up incrementally. Say 50c at ten downloads, a dollar at fifty up to the maximum price at 500-1000 downloads.
It's a self-regulating pricing structure which encourages people to try something new for free and once people know the quality of it they'll hopefully be prepared to pay.
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There is already a web site that does almost that. The price is based on how many have been sold. I don't think that starting with free will work but a low price is how the site does it.
http://www.bookhabit.com/index.php
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