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Kindle Books

What price point is your limit for a e-book?

  • No more than 99p

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • £1.00 to £1.49

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • £1.50 to £1.99

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • £2.00 to £2.50

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • £2.50 to £3.00

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • No more than £5.00

    Votes: 5 55.6%
  • Total voters
    9
Jem8472

Jem8472

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As most of you are aware I have recently published a book with the help of my family, Lottie very kindly did me a cover and Panda did a few graphics for me which was very kind of her.

We are thinking of doing a kindle version of the book. It should help the book get more widely known and will probably improve sales, not that we have been doing badly so far, about 400 copies gone so far.

What do people think of Kindle books?
What price do you pay for a book?
Do you buy a book if it is cheap regardless of if you think you will read it all?
 
Personally, I'm a huge advocate for eBooks, and in particular those on the Kindle ecosystem. Their books are available to read on a wide range of devices, not just Kindles (I read my Kindle books primarily on my iPhone, for example), they're super-intuitive to buy and then (most importantly) read through and you can adjust settings such as text-size etc to suit.

Additionally, whilst I have not published anything of my own (yet...) I have helped other people publish all range of things onto different eBook platforms and Kindle is by far and away the simplest process. Amazon keep a fair proportion of your earnings (Around 40% IIRC) but the rest is given to you as the author, and there are minimal to no set-up fees. Additionally, anyone who has a (correctly-prepared) Word or PDF version of their book can convert their book using Amazon's in-house tools accurately, quickly and efficiently.

(If you do decide to go down the Kindle route, I'm more than happy to help you with the process if need be :) )
 
The only e Books I have on my iPad are free ones. I refuse to pay for any download of anything (I still buy CDs). I like physical objects!
 
Mike said:
Personally, I'm a huge advocate for eBooks, and in particular those on the Kindle ecosystem. Their books are available to read on a wide range of devices, not just Kindles (I read my Kindle books primarily on my iPhone, for example), they're super-intuitive to buy and then (most importantly) read through and you can adjust settings such as text-size etc to suit.

Additionally, whilst I have not published anything of my own (yet...) I have helped other people publish all range of things onto different eBook platforms and Kindle is by far and away the simplest process. Amazon keep a fair proportion of your earnings (Around 40% IIRC) but the rest is given to you as the author, and there are minimal to no set-up fees. Additionally, anyone who has a (correctly-prepared) Word or PDF version of their book can convert their book using Amazon's in-house tools accurately, quickly and efficiently.

(If you do decide to go down the Kindle route, I'm more than happy to help you with the process if need be :) )
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Thanks for your post. Hopefully if it is that easy we should be ok formatting the book for the kindle. But the fact I have to do paperwork for US tax info :worried:
 
To be honest, so long as you follow the preparation guidelines on the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) site it's fairly straightforward to format & upload.

Re: tax - I agree, it's irritating as by default, the US tax authorities will take about 30% of your royalties. Don't worry about doing that immediately - you have 3 years IIRC to claim any overpaid tax (i.e. all of it!) back, so I'd focus on getting the book up on there first :)
 
I rarely buy books. There are plenty of very talented independent authors who publish their work on the net for free. I think I've bought 4-5 books on my 3 year old Kindle and none of them I payed more than about £3 for; and none of them I enjoyed more than work I found free on the Internet.
 
Thanks for your comments. I am sure there are plenty of talented writers out there.
But all the books you have found for free have they been fiction or non fiction?
 
A few people were surprised at us charging £10 for the book, but I believe it's because fiction is churned out so quickly and at such low prices compared to non fiction.
 
I mostly have free ebooks @Jem8472 of which there are many - although a good number are only precursors to courses, or further purchases given the subject matter that mainly interests me, I have been known to actually spend real virtual paper monies on an ebook! I spent about 11 quid on a specialty PR book to keep in handy on my phone, I have spent a couple of quid here and there I think, those are usually "that seems interesting, worth a punt for a couple of quid" type of books.

Also worth noting, I am not a fiction reader - I am a knowledge seeker, and generally I prefer watching instructional video or getting stuck in practically, researching online etc, but I will spend pretty much anything up to 15 quid even on an ebook for a subject matter that is of interest.

I've tinkered with writing myself, and been involved with very successful authors, knocked around with Random House at times with a project I worked on, so I know how much goes into a well researched and written book - I think the delivery medium is irrelevant to the work involved and I disagree rarely with @DiogoJ42 but on that one I do (preference of course).

Let me give you some marketing tips.

If you price something TOO low, people wont value it and think it's worth while - if you want to PM for me info about how I know this in confidence, feel free I'll share what I know with you.

Personally I think this is PERFECT mid priced Kindle material!
 
Thanks for your reply, we did not want to price it too cheap as, like you said, people get the idea that its not any good. £3-£4 is a decent enough price for people to think its good but also to catch the impulse buyer.
 
Jem8472 said:
Thanks for your reply, we did not want to price it too cheap as, like you said, people get the idea that its not any good. £3-£4 is a decent enough price for people to think its good but also to catch the impulse buyer.
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Don't be afraid to mess with the price. You can always charge more at first, and then offer a sale later - where as it's hard to increase the price later. Mark it down from £10 to a fiver for the ebook for example - if people are buying it in print, that's a decent looking deal - that essentially marks the price down by half purely for the delivery method.

Consider MP3 costs for an album Vs a full CD - there isn't that much difference.

As I say, you can always reduce a price you can't really put it up again.
 
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