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Just got a newsletter from Thea Harrison on her upcoming Elder Races release (December 13 for those interested).
She's self-publishing and she's trying to get the same $7.99 price as her books released by her old publisher. That fits with the prices she charges for her self-pubbed novellas/short stories. They're "expensive" when compared to many other self-pubbed offerings - more in line with the novella/shorts prices from the Big 5.
The cover looks very professional - you wouldn't know just by looking that's is self-published.
Kobo shows it as discount eligible - probably the only difference between her Big 5 publisher and her own.
I don't know how I feel about this. At first I was cynical and rolling my eyes. Knowing how little authors get out of the $7.99 cover price and how the more reasonable price of $4.99 seems more standard for self-pubbed, I was thinking she was being greedy, and she'd be disappointed.
But then I thought - if people are buying her stuff now at $7.99, and the cover still looks professionally done, many folks may never realize she's self-pubbing now.
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