I’m torn on this. I want to keep prices low, so that more people will buy my books. But I’m wondering whether I’ve got them too low. I don’t want them so low that people think that they’re lower quality.
Here’s the current breakdown:
| Book | Ebook | Paperback |
| Frozen Dreams | $2.99 | $9.99 |
| Tinsel Rain | $4.99 | $12.99 |
| Morgan Barod | $4.99 | $12.99 |
| Tales From the Fermi Resolution 1 | $2.99 | $12.99 |
| Tales From the Fermi Resolution 2 | $4.99 | $13.99 |
| Ghosts on An Alien Wind | $4.99 | $13.99 |
(Books can be found here.) Is it finally time to push everything up to $14.99? The e-books mostly look okay, although arguably they could go up to $5.99. I honestly don’t know.
Most pulp novels in my local box bookstore are $15-20. Is price point a real barrier on these things?
At extremes? Definitely. A 99 cent e-book practically screams “I didn’t have an editor and I bought a stock cover.” $2.99 was as low as I could put FROZEN DREAMS and still have it taken seriously. It’s just that now I wonder whether the magic number is now $4.99.
I’m thinking it’s time to raise prices by $2.30 and start offering a $1.00 discount for your Patreons and other tipsters.
Mew
p.s. the $0.30 is to compensate one of the Moe-lings for comparing Patreons to book orderers. Call it a handling charge, call it an allowance spiff, whatever.
I see lots of the first novels in a series at the $2.99 price point.
So long as the rest of the series isn’t at that price point, I take it as a statement of confidence.