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Originally Posted by Marj
Personally, I'm beginning to resent this whole thing of readers expecting books for free or for the ludicrous price of just 99c. Some of you seem to think that $2.99 is dear! But you'd pay more for a cup of coffee.
My own books are adult (not porn or even erotica.) I will never make them free because people should consider before they buy them. My publisher set the first at $2.99, and probably the second will be the same. That is very cheap, cheaper than I would have chosen. For a year's work, a great book, $2.99 is an absolute pittance.
Maybe 99c for a Mills & Boon type romance, but for a serious book, try being willing to pay a bit more and you might find you get greater quality.
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A couple things:
1, Who are you? That's rhetorical. The point is, I don't know you from Adam and have no idea what quality you are going to deliver. Maybe if you had the reputation of (I dunno...what 'adult' author ever commanded a high cover price?) DH Lawrence? Then I would know I'm buying quality. But the point is we DON'T don't know, so why should we risk a cup of coffee that we know we'll get value from?
Note Stephen King and JK Rowling aren't here in this thread sweating over this.
2, $2.99 is a pittance but, what, $7.99 is fair compensation for a YEAR'S work?!
They are both pittances when figured as an hourly rate. That's never the point. The point is trying to get thousands of new readers to spend their pittance on YOU vs. all the others like you who are competeing not just for the pittance, but for hours of those readers lives that you expect them to spend on you.
ApK