Thread: What's up with all the tacky western romance novels?
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Old 08-14-2009, 03:03 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by AnnaM View Post
"Ya know what bugs me most about romance books?

They often beat the PANTS off my book in download/sale numbers! Like, how RUDE!"

Ha. The flip side is that the romance market space is very competitive. EVERYBODY is a romance writer! Unbroken is 99 cents on Kindle, to get noticed in the crowd. I can say that low pricing works, as the book is consistently in the top 10 westerns (hourly chart), and now hits the top 100 historical romance list occasionally.
But it's not available for people who do not own a Kindle. So you really want to alienate a lot of people who do not own a Kindle? This is one of the major issues we have with Amazon. Exclusive Kindle eBooks does more harm than good. It prevents people without a Kindle from reading them and it gets them pissed enough to not want to read anything else that author may have that they could read. So all you do is piss off potential customers and a bad word of mouth can go a long way.
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