{"id":193,"date":"2016-07-18T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T18:29:18","slug":"online-ebook-pricing-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/online-ebook-pricing-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Online ebook pricing conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with a novel I wrote. I have it published on Amazon as an ebook (see below). I really am more interested in people reading it than I am in\u00a0abeing paid.<\/p>\n<p>The conundrum is what price to ask? \u00a0It&#8217;s currently listed at $2.99. If I price it at $.99, I think that the people who are most likely to enjoy it, will dismiss it. \u00a0I spent several years, off and on, working on it. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been through several drafts and polished it as much as I&#8217;m able. \u00a0When I compare the prose against books that cost $2.99 (my current price) and others that are more, they often seem more like drafts than finished novels&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A few people are actually purchasing it&#8211;to my surprise&#8211;, I don&#8217;t think they are friends and\u00a0family. The complexities in such a simple endeavor have been quite a bit more then I expected. \u00a0My expectation was that no one would purchase it, and I&#8217;d soon give up in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>So. I may lower the price, temporarily, too see what impact it has. \u00a0Then, who knows, I might make it $4.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with a novel I wrote. I have it published on Amazon as an ebook (see below). I really am more interested in people reading it than I am in\u00a0abeing paid. The conundrum is what price to ask? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/online-ebook-pricing-conundrum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.klamet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}