I enhanced my copy of Kim (by Rudyard Kipling) that's
here on Mobileread, and put it up on the
Kindle Store.
There are, of course, loads of versions of Kim on the Kindle store, but, not to be modest, mine's the best, in terms of the quality of the text and the formatting. And mine also has some rather nice illustrations done by Kipling's father.
It's been up in the store for a month now. I priced it at $2.99, more expensive than the cheapest editions up there, but cheaper than many. It sold 4 copies.
Not too good. Some of the cheaper (but much nastier) editions have (judging by the sales rank) been selling many more copies.
So, I've just lowered the price. To $0.99. I'll leave it there for the next month and see how things go. Hopefully I'll sell enough more to make up for the reduction in price.
I must admit that one of the things that prompted the change in price was that I was vastly impressed by our own alvico's success with her novel,
Thin Blood, a mystery/thriller. Of course, a lot of that success must be down to it being an excellent novel (the sample I read certainly impressed me). But the price probably didn't hurt either. And I suppose an unknown publisher has some of the same difficulties as an unknown author.
For those who've missed her announcement in the Shameless thread - Thin Blood is currently hovering at the #16 point
in the whole of the Kindle Store!
I'd be pleased just to see my edition of Kim start outselling those quick & dirty Gutenberg text conversion editions!