No Return…and Why I Decided to Repackage It
Before I go any further, No Return is free on February 4th, 2012. Go forth and download. Okay, now that we have that out of the way, I thought I’d talk a little bit about the book and why it’s now a part of my catalogue, as it had actually been out and about on Lulu, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble for some time before that. When I wrote No Return, I had just come out of a major writing slump. Huge. We’re talking almost seven years where I hardly did any writing. Yes, you read...
Read MoreSome More Thoughts About Ebook Pricing
This past weekend I was out riding the rails with my husband (seriously…they have this wonderful $10 weekend pass on Metrolink here in Southern California where you can ride anywhere you want both days, all for just ten bucks), and he mentioned a book he’d been discussing with one of his coworkers. So he whipped out his iPod and located it on Amazon, and was about to download it to his Kindle app when he mentioned that it was $12.99. “Thirteen bucks!” I screeched....
Read MoreMeeting in the middle?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about “agency pricing” and how the decision of a group of major NY publishers to go with this pricing model will affect e-book readers in the long run. Numbers have been flung back and forth, and frankly, I don’t pretend to understand half of it because, well, I’m a writer, not an accountant. However, what I am seeing is a lot of commentary by readers (the very consumers you’d think publishers would want to court) saying that...
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