Best e-book starting price?
Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 2:14 am
What is the best starting price for an e-book? I have few numbers in my mind, but I'd like to hear some numbers first.
Then these people won't ready my novel. It's that simple. :)Margo wrote:There are those who think a debut novel should be 99 cents, especially if it is the first in a series.
I have to agree with this. Nothing should go below an X price.Others believe a novel shouldn't go for less than $2.99.
I had $4.44, $6.66 and $8.88 in my mind. But it seems the last sentence in the quote is eliminating the last two. In this case I keep the last two price ideas for the paper editions.Several authors are doing well in the $4.99 or even $6.99 range. But I think in general they still agree the price for a novel should be no more than five or six dollars.
:) I know. 6.66 was just the middle between the original price what I always wanted and the presumed final price. In my work numbers has an essence. The release date also work on this way and the price will be set on this way too. My original idea would be 8.88USD as 888 is a key number in my WIP. But that's too much, so the other one, 4.44 will be the final one.maybegenius wrote:You might be surprised how many people won't buy something priced at $6.66 for superstitious reasons, heh.
Same here. Whoever is selling his or her work for a low price, such as 0.99, that writer is also considering that work as a work without any true value. I won't do that. I won't go below 2.99 (Nor below 4.44). In my opinion 4.44 is also a very-very-very low price for an e-book, but it's already an acceptable one and at least it's connecting to my work one way or another (Plus as I have three volumes, a low price of the first may generate readers for the other two volumes. And as sometimes the less can generate much more, that's the reason why I'm willing to go with this low price. With this I value my own work and it's also an affordable price.). Then we'll see how it is going to work out in the reality...Personally, I wouldn't go lower than $2.99 unless I was offering a shorter work.