Comments on: Survey of the price of the top 100 selling ebooks in August. https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1200 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:11:40 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1200 Always fascinating.

Curiously, over the past few months I have shifted the prices of all my novels to $4.99. There are two main reasons for this:

1. in the lower price range (say $0.99 to $4.99) I have failed to notice any price sensitivity for any of my books. So, as a grasping capitalist, I would rather my books were at that top of that range than at the bottom.

2. Since I'm a grasping capitalist with a conscience, I cannot bring myself to charge more than that. If my books sell well at that price, I'll make enough money to be happy and won't feel I've ripped anybody off. I think $5 for a book is about what they are worth – what all novels are worth, no matter what technology they're published with.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1201 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:53:36 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1201 Anthony, I have an ipad and Kindle, and I think the Kindle is the best for reading, mine is not back lit – its epaper looks like a book page, so it's easy on the eyes. But I think Kindle might have bowed to ignorant pressure and the latest version might be back lit. I have recently decided to purchase ebooks from author's sites so Amazon does not get any money. Hate the way that Amazon don't pay tax. The Kindle itself I think is a loss leader for them, I don't think they make much money out of selling them, it at all – they make the money from the actual ebooks. But self-publishing authors get a lot better deal from Amazon then they do from going with a traditional publisher. Witness Hugh Howey. When the publishers came running after he has sold millions of self-published science fiction ebooks – and they are very good as I have read two of them – he didn't sell the ebook rights to them.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1202 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:36:31 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/survey-of-the-price-of-the-top-100-selling-ebooks-in-august/#comment-1202 Ah youve tickled my Kindle once again. I think I'm going to go ahead and buy one. Kindle is the best then? Do you Amazon to purchase most of your ebooks?
I'm travelling soon so perhaps it's time to let go of the paperback, at least, temporarily.

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