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Old 12-06-2017, 12:48 AM   #36
Steven Lake
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
You have enough independent series that you could consider offering a second book for free, for example the first in the Land of the Lions, or perhaps one of your short story collections. Doing this may also alleviate any concerns you have over charging $2.99 rather than $1.99 for the remaining books (though I don't think you should be concerned, it's a fair price).

I mention this mainly because the biggest problem with offering your first published book for free is that quite often the first book is a less than ideal advertisement. We (hope to) get better as we get more experience.
I've actually decided to do the first book free for Earthfleet, Land of the Lions and Offworld Chronicles. The rest will all have pay doors to access. As for the giving to charity part, I tried that and actually got so much negative kickback that I just changed it to "at cost" and people seemed to like that better. Well, at least for the print books. The ebooks it was either "you keep all the money, or just don't charge at all", so for a while I didn't charge. Now I'm gonna try charging and see what happens.

And sorry about my slow replies. I work 10hrs a day 4 days a week at a high stress job, so I don't usually have the energy to do much here by the time I have the freetime to do it. Thankfully I have 3 day weekends every week to recover. ^_^;;
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