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Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival,” where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.
This week’s topic:
I buy e-books at Amazon.com.
*The title of the post refers to buying books as the only shopping I like, cause I hate, HATE shopping. Even clothes, shoes, anything. I love having them, hate going to the mall to shop.
I have a good explanation, though.
When I used to live in the US, I went to Books A Million, which was the bookstore nearest to my house.
When I came back to Brazil, I brought a lot of books, but, within a few months, I had read them all. I wanted to keep reading in English (so I would not lose my English and because I was writing in English). There are a few bookstores here in Brazil who carry a dozen of titles in English, the “original” book, but they charge a lot for it (you know, it’s foreign …).
So each time my husband went to US for work, I ordered 10+ books. Can you imagine the weight of 10+ books on a suitcase? More than once he paid for overweight on his baggage and wanted my neck for it lol
Then the e-books exploded and I saw a solution for my reading … my husband bought a Kindle for me and I started buying books online. Pretty simple, pretty neat.
I do miss the smell and the feel of print books, but at least now I can keep reading without having to wait for my husband’s rare US-trips ;)
When and if I go back to US (to live again!) next year, I’ll probably buy half of the books on a bookstore near to my house (luckily a local one) and the other half on Kindle. You gotta admit that having a hundred books on a small device is kinda of neat for traveling and such.
Anyway …
Where do you guys buy books?
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On a previous post, I started a poll about e-book pricing. Here is the link.
The poll remained open for 4 weeks.
Here are the results:
As you can see, “up to $5” for an e-book won by a large margin.
Second is “up to $7” followed closely by “up to $2.99” for an e-book.
Not surprisingly, some people still don’t buy e-books—something that will change in the future, I think. Not that they will only buy e-books, but they are bound to try it, and I’m sure they will juggle between print books and e-books after that.
I could bet that in the far future about 90% of the books sales will be on e-books. But I’m no Joe Konrath. I don’t make previsions. I just go with the flow and try to make the best decisions for me. As should you. For you.
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As some of you many know, from reading a previous post, I still don’t know which route to follow. Trad publishing? Agents? Small presses? Self-publishing? I honestly don’t know. Right now, I’m considering all options available to me. Though, I confess the slow processing of the trad publishing pushes me away.
Well, I’ve got one finished MS and it’s sitting on my desk while I try to figure out what to do (in the meantime, I’m writing another MS).
Why I didn’t self-published it, you may ask. Because readers of self-published authors want speed, among other things.
On his post titled If I were an unpublished author, would I self-publish?, author Bob Mayer advises writers to wait and only self-publish after having finished 3 manuscripts. Why? To build up readership and then to invest in marketing, so not to waste money.
And that’s what I’m doing. While I consider self-publishing or not, I’m writing another book, so, when and if I self-publish, I’ll have more than one book to upload. And if I choose another route, still it won’t be a bad thing to have more than one MS ready.
Moreover …
Speed is one of aspects that changed the most with the e-revolution. On his blog, author Dean Wesley Smith talks about the importance of speed in today’s market.
Traditional published authors tend to have the books of a series released one per year.
Some small presses can push book series to be released every 6 to 9 months, depending …
Readers of self-published authors/books now expect books of a series to be delivered even faster.
For example, Sarra Cannon released the first book in the Peachville High Demons, Beautiful Demons, in October/2010. The second one, Inner Demons, was released in December, 2010. From book 1 to book 2, only two months passed! Then, Cannon released book 3, Bitter Demons, in February/2011 (only 3 months after the second one) and book 4, Shadow Demons, in July/2011. Now, we are anxiously waiting for book 5! But we know it won’t take too long for Cannon to release it.
One observation that may influence why self-published authors are able to release books (of the same series) faster than traditional published authors: self-pubbed authors tend to write one series at a time while many traditional pubbed authors have 3 or 4 series up at the same time. (Of course, that’s not taking into consideration that the publisher may be interested in releasing one book per year of the same series because of marketing and expectation …) That’s the case of Richelle Mead, for example. Mead has 3 series out at the moment (2 actually as VA already ended and Bloodlines will be out only next week, then the Succubus one will end too. But well, since she wrote 3 at the same time for many years, let’s consider it’s 3). Mead writes a book after the other, each one from a different series.
Would that work in self-publishing?
Yesterday, on a thread at Kindleboards, many folks said they don’t like to buy the first on a series until a couple more are released too—why? Two reasons: to make sure the series continues and, if they like it, to read it as a fan, one after the other.
So, is it better to focus on a single series, finished it first, then start writing others?
What do you think?
Cheers,
WRITERS, this is not a question of how much will you price your books. I want you to answer the question as readers. READERS, how much would/will you pay for an e-book?
At the right sidebar, you’ll find the poll ——————–>
Seeing as I love to over explain everything, here I go …
Nathan Bransford had a poll on his blog about the price of e-book based on the hardcover price. Here are the results.
My poll is different because I don’t want you to consider hardcover price. Lately, many small presses and indie authors don’t have hardcovers out there, only e-books and POD paperback. For those who don’t know, POD means Print On Demand, which means the book (paperback usually) is only printed when bought by a reader and in the quantity bought.
I also found this poll on David Maine’s blog. He asks how much you would pay for the e-book of an author you never read before, which is somewhat like what I’m asking.
The writing/publishing market changed SO MUCH during the last 2 years. I’m doing this poll more out of curiosity to see where readers stand now.
Let’s take me, as reader, in consideration (the following are thoughts of mine that may or may not be correlated):
As a writer, I wouldn’t like to have my books out for over $7, I think. And perhaps even $7 is too high these days. If I ever self-publish, I’ll probably price my books around $0.99-$2.99. But what if I don’t go indie? Will my books be read/bought if their prices are not that cheap?
To me, readers are more important than money (very interesting article on the topic here), but writing is also my job.
What do you have to say about e-book pricing, as a readers and/or a writer?
Cheers,