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Originally Posted by Hitch
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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Basically free? When I picked it up, it was free. One of the few freebies that I was impressed enough by to put the author on my watch list.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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I've never gotten to the "expert" rate but then, for me, it's a sideline which has the advantage I can say no much easier than if I was depending on that income to pay the grocery bill. You want your INDD epub3 fixed layout ebook with embedded audio & video to upload to Amazon and look the same?