File Under: "Proof of concept."

[alexandraerin]

After my learning experience that concluded yesterday, I decided to test the waters on Amazon with a small project. So I took my classicesque science fiction story "The Redundant Man Who Was Redundant" and made a quick work-up of it for Kindle. I don't recall when I submitted it to the store, exactly, but I have a feeling it must have been this morning. In any event, it's up already.

I feel conflicted about putting a 3,000 word story up for 99 cents (Amazon won't go any lower). Following the "iTunes analogy", a short story is a song, but no analogy is perfect.

To me this seems like a price hike, but part of that is the fact that we don't typically buy short stories individually. I've learned as part of the conversation on e-book pricing that there is a market of people who enjoy buying shorts for that price, to read on their phones/tablets/whatever. That's something I'm going to bear in mind going forward, though I'll probably try to offer greater value in the future, either by doubling up short pieces or putting together slightly longer ones. When I've got enough of them of a suitable theme together to sell them as a package I'll put up an anthology within Amazon's 70% royalty sweetspot. This story here is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else.

Comments

[andy9306.livejournal.com]

The title alone is worth the dollar. Seriously, I like that title way too much.