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Originally Posted by conan50
Thanks guys. So a 500 page book is better in KU than a 150 page book if it is fully read, but still makes less than a book sold depending on the price of the book.
I'm wondering if KU is having a negative impact on book sales, so that authors are pretty much stuck with KU regardless.
I also wonder if the author ought to just put a ridiculous price on their ebook to make it more attractive to KU readers. In other words, a book that is only listed at $2.99 might not look as good as a $9.99 book. They might think at the lower price they could just buy it, whereas the higher priced book they might want to read with their KU membership.
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The problem with that is that you don't want to cut out sales entirely and raising the price may mean you rely entirely on KU. When I did the countdown for Soul of the Desert (Regular price is 4.99) I sold several copies at 1.99 and less at 2.99 (KU allows you to gradually raise your price over 6 days). So far there have been no KU borrows during the ad period. The ad doesn't specifically mention KU, but anyone clicking through can see it's in the program. Authors have to balance sales and borrows. Soul is also a stand alone so it tends to sell differently than my genre/series fiction.
In short...it's a crap shoot. Sometimes things work and sometimes they don't!