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I'm conflicted about what to do with my Quest story, now that we managed to make it available on Kindle. Part of me wants to encourage all of you to buy it, and use what has been posted as a teaser to hopefully help, but I have really enjoyed the feedback I've been getting on each chapter here, and would miss it if the rest of the story wasn't posted here.
Suggestions?
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Encouragement
http://baen.com/library/intro.asp
Read that. That is the information I personally use when talking to people about having their entire works for free on the web. I know, to a certain degree it is counter-intuitive, but then again, it's not.
Now, this is of course referring to print vs electronic media, but there is only a minor difference, especially if people can buy the entire book here now.
Personally, when it comes to offering electronic versions vs free electronic versions, I do the following: Make the full version available as I am posting the free version by chapter. Have links taking you from free version to pay version so all of the impatient readers can get it ahead of time. When you get done with the free version, leave it there for a couple of weeks (months) and then reduce it to a couple of chapters as a teaser.
Now, if you get to the point where you have an on-demand publisher who can produce a print version...then you can leave a free electronic version up forever.
Don't take anything here as a permnanent rule. As Kindle and Nook gain market share, e-books should have the same appeal as print books, so an online published book vs a Kindle/Nook book will follow same guidelines as for print.
He entered the hall to get warm. She left it two hundred years later.
Faeriemage
well... I'm still a student
well... I'm still a student and don't own a credit card, so personally I prefer to read it here. But if it really helps you out to sell the story, then I definitely won't hold it against you :--)
Is it Legal?
Is it legal to have a book for sale on amazon and then have parts of it here for free? I thought there would be some sort of publishing law to stop you doing stuff like that.
I also think it's a little unfair to anyone reading your story to suddenly find out they need to go and buy it to read the rest, but that's just my way of thinking.
You need to way up the money over the comments and see which you want the most, as you can't have your cake and eat it, as they say.
Hugs.
SaraUK
Nook
Amazon does not have a limitation on pricing, but Nook does. You can't offer it for less somewhere else than you do on Nook.
At least the last time I read the pricing info on Amazon they did not have that limitation.
He entered the hall to get warm. She left it two hundred years later.
Faeriemage
as far as I know, its legal
I've decided I'm going to keep posting Quest here. If anyone wants to buy a copy, they're welcome, but sometimes, family comes before money, and you guys are part of my family.
I do believe it is legal. If
I do believe it is legal.
If you are the creator and don't have an exclusivity contract for that title you can choose to keep a free version available or not posted.
Tannya Allan has several of her titles on sale at Amazon available here for free.
I read them here, and sometimes I do buy the book if I like it enough, so I think it is a difficult question. You can't predict which outcome is the best one.
One other example is Maddy Bell with her Gaby books. The books are for sale, but she keeps a free version online and the latest book she posts one chapter per week while the complete version is for sale.
Hugs,
Andrea.
Sara, I for one would love to see your stories for sale at Amazon and I would definitely buy every single one of them.
I'm not good enough
Thanks for the praise Andrea, but I'm nowhere near good enough to sell my stories on Amazon. I'm amazed that people read them on here for free.
I was so thick in school that they wouldn't even let me sit the English and Maths exam in my final year of school, so I left with neither. So i'm just happy that anyone takes the time to read my stuff, and the only reason they do is because it's free.
Samantha has to do a lot of work to make it so you can all read it, trust me.
Sorry to steal you blog Dorothy, and I wish you luck on selling your story :) It all just seems very simple to do, and I always think that there has to be a catch when things are simple.
Hugs.
SaraUK
I'm not sure about Amazon fraud...
But your works mostly are good enough to be published. IMHO.
Sorry, but I'm not going to buy your book on Amazon.
For two reasons.
Main one: I stopped trusting Amazon. When they require my credit card info to get FREE book... It's fraud in my books. (Yes, it was a pun attempt :-) ) They have a lot to do to persuade me to supply my credit card details to them.
Second reason, sorry, I'm not into magic in TG stories. I know I'm bitter, it's just magic and intersex options were interesting fantasies for me, but it was some 27 years ago. But that have nothing to do with you or your story. Just my skeletons in my closet.
If you publish nonmagic book on Lulu, I most probably willl buy it.
I'll be buying it anyway!
I always try to buy my friend's books. I cannot wait for chapter 2 of Changes, and I'm trying to do a cover Idea for one of Tanya's sequels (but everything I do looks like crap!). I try to support y'all where I can.
Wren
Post
it here or not, it's up to you.