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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'll let Leebase speak for himself. When I say support the author, I tend to mean that if you have an author you like, go ahead and buy the books so he or she will have the money to keep writing. I've had way too many authors that I really liked give up writing because they could make a living at it.
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Which I, and most of us here, do. We pay for the books. My argument was simply that asking me to pay, say, $9.99 for a new author's book, when it hasn't been vetted or comes flying at me over the transom, effectively (KDP) is not going to fly. Look at The Martian--basically free, for his first however-many-thousands of fans, on his blog. You cannot judge the quality of the effort by the sales price, today. That idea has been completely stamped out
for the brand-new writer by the democratization of publishing, effectively. For those that have pubbed a few books, it's more appropos.
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I certainly agree that when an author is first trying to build an audience, it behoves that author to put out the books cheap. I'll buy a book for a buck on a whim if it looks mildly interesting. It really has to catch my attention before I'll pop $15+ on an author I've never read before, or it has to have the recommendation of someone that I trust. That is what the free first book in a series thing is all about.
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Sure, this. I mean, when I started out making ebooks, I certainly wasn't charging what "experts" (whatever THAT was back then, ha!) were. I started out at a "learning" rate and worked my way up.
We should view self-publishing as
what it is--an old way of training/learning. It's an apprenticeship to journeyman to master process. The difference now is instead of those folks being witnessed
behind writing group doors and critique group doors and all those other doors, we're seeing it up close and personal. Many will never--never--get out of the apprenticeship stage, but that's what it's for.
Culling. And their pay is commensurate with where they are on that ladder.
Hitch