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Originally Posted by Clytie
pricew, he's also released that book (and more) for Kindle, so you can just grab it from Amazon. He gets a better deal if you buy directly from him, though.
I'm definitely in favour of supporting an author who's trying to adapt. Sometimes it's even a bit of support at a key time that changes your life. $5 isn't much to contribute to digital change, you get a great book out of it, and the promise of a long-requested sequel if he can afford to do it.
Scott Nicholson said:
This is great! It's definitely the sort of added participation and expanded medium we can attain via ebooks. Keep up the good work (while I check out your books  ). |
As I said on another thread, but same point to make, this is a big point for authors trying to market themselves. In the past, a book was paper, and there were a couple of formats, and you went to a store, and bought the book. Now, in the e-book, their are multiple formats, and what's more, we don't pass green stuff back and forth to buy them with.
So if an author chooses to release in only certain formats, or only take payment in certain forms, he may reach an audience willing to trade money for his work, and then at the last minute lock them out, and loose the sale.
Now, this is me a customer. He reached me (through word of mouth of others), I went to his site, then he lost me. I will not do business with PayPal. I don't have a kindle, and don't want or need the kindle apps on my devices (computer, or readers (if it is available, which it isn't on my main leisure reader)). So, this tells me the author really wants me to bend my principals to do business with him, because he doesn't want to do the work to support multiple formats and payment options (say smashwords if he doesn't want to do it).
So, net, one lost sale that is somewhat vocal this time, how many others for the same reasons? To effectively sell to the most customers, you need to make it easy for them to say, sure, I'll try that. Make us jump through hoops, we will move on and read something else.
--Carl