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Friday, September 14th
Sep. 14th, 2012 09:38 amThe Daily Report
By the end of today, I'll be submitting the Tales of MU volume 1 book 1 ebook to the Amazon Kindle store, at long last. Takes a day or two for that to work its way through the system, but I should be able to announce it with a link by Monday, easily.
After this I'll be doing a continuous process of conversion that should allow me to add one book of volume 1 a month even at a sedate pace (and this of course will mean that the big undifferentiated mass of chapters that form most of volume 1 will be given proper divisions). These are the bare bones e-book editions I talked about before.
In a year or two when I have the space and assistance necessary to do fulfillment of things like signed physical hard copies I plan on doing an IndieGoGo or Kickstart or similar campaign to get cover art and editing, and I'll "update" the ebooks with the improvements and raise the price. I'm pretty sure that anybody who's bought the original ebook will be able to remove it from their device and download the new one. Pretty sure. But that's a year or two in the future so my ability to even promise it will happen in the first place is pretty limited.
I keep going back and forth when it comes to the price... I now that I want the run of ebooks to generally be priced at $2.99 (where Amazon's sweet spot kicks in) but I've gone back and forth about pricing the first one at $0.99 to try to attract new readers. I think I'm going to make it $2.99, though. It makes me six times as much money per sale and the conventional wisdom is that on a book-length product there isn't that much difference in sales between the $0.99 and $2.99 price point.
And while I'm wary of the arguments that it undervalues the work of writing to price an e-book too low, I really want to get behind the idea of the 99 cent short story. Selling a 22 chapter novella for 99 cents kind of conflicts with that.
The State of the Me
Slept well, got up feeling pretty good. It's a sunny day with a projected high of 80 today, after several cool gray days in a row. Summer is giving up slowly here.
Tasks For Today
By the end of today, I'll be submitting the Tales of MU volume 1 book 1 ebook to the Amazon Kindle store, at long last. Takes a day or two for that to work its way through the system, but I should be able to announce it with a link by Monday, easily.
After this I'll be doing a continuous process of conversion that should allow me to add one book of volume 1 a month even at a sedate pace (and this of course will mean that the big undifferentiated mass of chapters that form most of volume 1 will be given proper divisions). These are the bare bones e-book editions I talked about before.
In a year or two when I have the space and assistance necessary to do fulfillment of things like signed physical hard copies I plan on doing an IndieGoGo or Kickstart or similar campaign to get cover art and editing, and I'll "update" the ebooks with the improvements and raise the price. I'm pretty sure that anybody who's bought the original ebook will be able to remove it from their device and download the new one. Pretty sure. But that's a year or two in the future so my ability to even promise it will happen in the first place is pretty limited.
I keep going back and forth when it comes to the price... I now that I want the run of ebooks to generally be priced at $2.99 (where Amazon's sweet spot kicks in) but I've gone back and forth about pricing the first one at $0.99 to try to attract new readers. I think I'm going to make it $2.99, though. It makes me six times as much money per sale and the conventional wisdom is that on a book-length product there isn't that much difference in sales between the $0.99 and $2.99 price point.
And while I'm wary of the arguments that it undervalues the work of writing to price an e-book too low, I really want to get behind the idea of the 99 cent short story. Selling a 22 chapter novella for 99 cents kind of conflicts with that.
The State of the Me
Slept well, got up feeling pretty good. It's a sunny day with a projected high of 80 today, after several cool gray days in a row. Summer is giving up slowly here.
Tasks For Today
- Start chapter of Tales of MU.
- Finish e-book formatting.
- Half an hour to an hour of free writing.
- Final pass of proofreading in e-book preview
- Post a Fantasy In Miniature.
- Submit e-book.