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Originally Posted by andyafro
I Think his last release (called UR) which was only for the Kindle shocked him abit, The fact it was only available for the kindle infuriated people and within 2 days of it being released someone had broke it converted it and multi-formatted it for all readers then posted it, must of killed any sales.
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I could certainly be wrong about this, but I think one thing that probably hurt the sales of UR was the premise of the novella: It's a work commissioned by an e-book device manufacturer centered around an e-book device. This means that, artistically, it has all the creativity of a deodorant commercial. Granted, I haven't read
UR, but part of the reason why is because it
sounds like a project he took on because he needs the money, and that's the point: It doesn't matter how well it's written, because of the
reason it was written. King should've written about something else.
Anything else.
As far as pre-releases go: I would pay a premium for a pre-release of an e-book, if it was by a favorite author. (If Frank Herbert was still alive, I could see paying more for one of his, for example.) But even there, I think $35 would be too much. If I know that the book will be out soon enough at $10, I wouldn't pay more than say, $20, and even at that, I'd feel better about it if there was extra content. I would probably pay $15 for a pre-release copy that was identical to a release day copy. (Of course, this assumes a $10 release day price. I've paid $15 for certain books, but that's generally not for novels. I've paid that for reference type books.)