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Originally Posted by ficbot
This is also true, but this is the part you don't seem to be accepting. When, in this thread, you have been confronted over and over again with readers saying they WILL pay a price that is fair, and then they qualify what 'fair' means to them (the $9.99 Amazon price seems to come up a lot; the principal objection most of us have is paying hardback prices for books which have less value than a hardback because there is no physical cost and we can't resell/loan/trade them so they have less uses) you complain it is not ENOUGH money and that you can earn more mowing lawns.
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You might want to do a little more research.
I sell my books for $2.50 right now (up from $2.00 when I started out). I think $10 for an e-book is
crazy. I won't pay it. I don't ask my customers to pay it. So don't put those words in my mouth... they are
not mine.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
Steve, I have tried in this thread to have a meaningful dialogue with you on this...
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As I said before, most of my comments have not been directed at you, ficbot, but at others like ahi who believe my work should be free and that I should have no say over the matter. Your comments to me seem to suggest you either are either skimming through my comments, or assuming things about me that aren't true.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
And you have been so fixated on the tiny percentage of pirating few that you have refused to address the valid points the paying customers such as myself have raised with you. You have come across badly, to me at least, and lost at least one potential paying fan.
I'm done dialoguing with you on this. You clearly are not ready to have a sensible conversation here, and I am through being tarred and feathered with the same brush. *I* buy books. *I* pay for them. If you don't want to talk to me about that, I'll leave you to your quest to convert the pirates to your cause and focus my book-buying dollar on authors who respect me and actually want my business.
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I'm sorry if I've been too busy defending my basic rights to dicker over book costs with you. As far as
I know, I personally do not have a problem with pirates or theft. But I am willing to speak up for others that have a vested interest here, and are possibly too afraid to speak up for fear of being tarred by the brush
I'm presently dripping from.
If you want to talk about ways to sell my e-books that is better than the
DRM-free $2.50 in multiple formats business model I have used from the beginning, I'm willing to discuss it. So far, your comments have been directed at others (like Amazon) more than at me... or you just assumed I was good with the Amazon setup (
I'm not. I tried it, decided it sucked, and pulled my books out of their store).