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I've been reading numerous articles on eBook pricing and was wondering if some veterans had advice on what a good price point is for a first time author publishing a fiction book. The book is 450 pages, so rather substantial. I workshopped it here and had it edited so it's pretty well written. I was thinking $4.99. Not expensive but also not so cheap that people think it's a real self-publishing hack. Thanks for any advice.
I've been reading numerous articles on eBook pricing and was wondering if some veterans had advice on what a good price point is for a first time author publishing a fiction book. The book is 450 pages, so rather substantial. I workshopped it here and had it edited so it's pretty well written. I was thinking $4.99. Not expensive but also not so cheap that people think it's a real self-publishing hack. Thanks for any advice.
3 or 4 years ago, I read something that said $2.99 was the best price point in general. I have priced a 400 pp. book at $3.99 much for the same reasons you give (Not expensive but also not so cheap that people think it's a real self-publishing hack.)
Here https://www.justpublishingadvice.com/7- … egy-ideas/ is an article that talks about pricing strategies.
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Should a 200 page book be the same price as a 700 page book?
In print, a 700-page book costs more to publish, but the same cost as a 200-page book, if an e-publication. So it could be the same price unless you think people will value the 700-pager more. In that case, sell it for more. For how much? You experiment. If $4.99 works, sell it for that. People will also think that a higher priced book is of more value than a lower priced book. So, if you sell it for less, you get fewer sales. I'd suggest looking at the prices, and pricing your right below the highest price, and leave it at that. Lower, you will get fewer sales, as people will think it's crummy; higher, and they will go, 'Are you kidding? Not paying that for an e-book.'
I think $4.99 is a good figure. I have two books on Amazon for that amount, with two different publishers deeming that a 276- and a 295-page book would warrant that. But if you're self-publishing, and all the profit goes to you, then $2.99-$3.99 might be a better choice. Do some research and see what other self-published books of that length are going for. Definitely do not go into that $.99 wasteland - until you get a short-term promo going. Undervaluing books is what is killing our industry, IMO. Same in the record industry, where artists have to give concerts to make any real money. Easy to say, but we should keep our standards high and not appeal to the cheap seats. An occasional free or big-discount promo is fine to get your name out there. But when I hear of authors bragging about how well their free book is "selling" on Amazon, I cringe. Hello. Free means those who download it don't put any value on it, and are only downloading it to be read when there's nothing else to do - maybe) because it's free.
..... But when I hear of authors bragging about how well their free book is "selling" on Amazon, I cringe. Hello. Free means those who download it don't put any value on it, and are only downloading it to be read when there's nothing else to do - maybe) because it's free.
This is topical, I was discussing the subject with a friend yesterday. The truth is that I really don't understand the e-book pricing on Amazon?
Okay, this is Amazon UK and UK Authors that I'm referring to, but I think the principle is same as the USA.
For example Kerry Fisher's. 'The Silent Wife' is a recent bestseller over here. It's in the bookstore window displays in paperback form for the standard £8.50 ($10.00 USD) and it is flying off the shelf.
However, it is concurrently sold at .99 pence on Amazon UK as a Kindle download.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Wife-gr … rds=ebooks
For some strange psychological reason I can't read a novel on a screen. My kindle is used as a mouse mat and I need the paper and print. However, I was pleased to pay my $10 for the book and friends who can get on with the screen reading say they'd happily part with £5 for the Kindle download, considering it a bargain at that price.
Why is it 99p for a proven bestseller?
Claire Douglas, does it differently. A strategy I can at least understand. She's a UK bestselling Author with a highly anticipated new novel that was recently released, 'Last Seen Alive'... She follows this with the free Kindle download of a short story, 'The Text' as a kind of taster/teaser. I'm sure it will promote a lot of interest in her other 'normally' priced novels.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Text-Claire-Do … rds=ebooks
There's also the other trend. Some of the naff free stuff became so popular, because it is so bad, that now it sells for big money. Like charging voyeurs to gawp at the train wreck.
There's also the other trend. Some of the naff free stuff became so popular, because it is so bad, that now it sells for big money. Like charging voyeurs to gawp at the train wreck.
I read the first page using the "look inside" feature. That's! Good! Stuff!
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