Basically, I would like to know what's the optimal price for ebooks published at Amazon (via Kindle Direct Publishing.) By "optimal" I mean the price that is more likely to generate sales.
I'll try to be as specific as I can:
Novel
- 60,000~70,000 words
- Literary Fiction
- Self-made cover
Novella
- 20,000~25,000 words
- Literary Fiction
- Self-made cover
Short Story
- 9,000~10,000 words
- Literary Fiction
- Self-made cover
How much should a new author charge for the cases described above?
(I published a 7K word short story before, and left it as $0.99. But I heard somewhere you should never sell yourself too low?)
Answer
Dean Wesley Smith famously advises against pricing anything at $0.99. That's the discount bin. It tells buyers that it's a cheap read, not that it's a good read.
Why not price your book as if you expected readers to want it?
Here is a bunch of advice from Dean about indie pricing: http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?tag=pricing
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