The Long Tail, Pricing
Jan. 5th, 2011 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalCurrently I'm in the process of re-editing The Dragon's Companion to ready it for publication on Smashwords. Aside from fixing the basic format and correcting some old spelling and grammar errors, I'm also tweaking the background slightly to bring it in line with Tez and Maria's universe. Since the only copy of Word I have available is at work (Open Office doesn't play nice with Smashwords) this is taking a bit of time. Which leaves me with either a quandry or an opportunity. Re-formatting is going to take a while, and The Dragon's Companion was originally three novellas stitched together, the first about 20k words and the remaining two sections around 17k each. So I can either release it as one complete unit, as the original book was on Lulu.com, or as the individual novellas. I intend to price according the word count, so assuming $1.00 for 10,000 words, a reader could have a single story for about $2.00 or $1.50, or three together for $5.50. The latter would be more complete, but relesing them individually would mean I could get the stories out now and perhaps start generating revenue a little earlier, given it hardly matters how you read them as e-publications.
If you've already bought a copy of the original book (hello to both of you), or have no intention of buying it, I'd appreciate you participating in the poll below anyway, just so I can get an idea of what my audience would like to see for future works.
[Poll #1664546]
If you've already bought a copy of the original book (hello to both of you), or have no intention of buying it, I'd appreciate you participating in the poll below anyway, just so I can get an idea of what my audience would like to see for future works.
[Poll #1664546]
