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BearMountainBooks · 02-12-2010, 12:05 PM

I'm not sure this article defines whether "name your own price" models work for books, but the stats are very interesting:

http://blog.smashwords.com/2010/02/w...customers.html

I don't think I was surprised to find that 85 percent chose not to pay. And if you are the author, I guess "success" depends upon your goal when you chose this payment method.

02-12-2010, 12:05 PM	#1
BearMountainBooks Maria Schneider Posts: 3,746 Karma: 26439330 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Austin, Texas Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard	Name Your Own Price--does it work??? I'm not sure this article defines whether "name your own price" models work for books, but the stats are very interesting: http://blog.smashwords.com/2010/02/w...customers.html I don't think I was surprised to find that 85 percent chose not to pay. And if you are the author, I guess "success" depends upon your goal when you chose this payment method.