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Self-Publishers, I need your help....
trboturtle:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on July 05, 2013, 03:37:57 AM ---I have no experience with that high a charge rate. I don't see any indie authors charging that much. So if you're charging 8.99 you'd need to have an established label or universe. Like dragon lance, forgotten realm, etc.
I put up book 3 of my Spineward sectors series april 23rd and at this point I have around 2500 sales, I put up book 4 on june 1st and I have about 1700. If you're books did as well as mine did then you'd be at the top end of what I could expect to earn before we're just looking at residual sales. At my 2.99 @ 70% with a top amazon rank of just under #1000 so what you're looking at probably out of my price range if I was looking at viability. That said other guys, indie authors, both singles like the guy who wrote poor man's fight or the guy who wrote terms of enlistment got well bellow amazon ranking 600 (200-600) which means they doubled or even better the number of sales I had, they were at 2.99. Guys like chris nuttal routinely charge 3.99 and get to 600, so again probably double the sales, of course those guys have a back list to help get more views. I've never done any advertsing so maybe that's part of it.
If you've got a brand and a label, you could probably get away with charging what you are talking about.
Sorry I can't help more.
The Deposed king
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Two of the brands are established -- One has nearly a hundred novels in DTF, the other forty novels. Both like have been around for 20+ years.
Craig
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: trboturtle on July 05, 2013, 07:36:58 PM ---Two of the brands are established -- One has nearly a hundred novels in DTF, the other forty novels. Both like have been around for 20+ years.
Craig
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Well best of luck. I will say that if they're already dead tree. Then it shouldn't cost very much extra to go digital but then you already said there would be fees. So not entirely sure. I will say e-books are the best thing to ever happen to my writing career and I'm doing better and better all the time.
The Deposed King
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