tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post5275620312026438601..comments2024-02-20T15:12:28.660-08:00Comments on A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: My writing week 4 (4)Graham Clementshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-23425486182021933582011-01-23T18:26:05.102-08:002011-01-23T18:26:05.102-08:00Patty, I agree with you that if something is cheap...Patty, I agree with you that if something is cheap, I ask why. A lot of the time when I buy the cheapest whatever, it breaks quickly. I think an author should charge a reasonable price for their work, one where they get a reasonable return. For short stories and novella and novelettes this could be on a sliding scale according to the word count starting at say 20 cents for a piece of flash fiction, up to a $1 for something around 5000 words and $3 or $4 for something around 40,000 to 50,000 words.Graham Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-42336336398277307382011-01-23T17:52:00.787-08:002011-01-23T17:52:00.787-08:00Thanks for the mention. I think pricing should be ...Thanks for the mention. I think pricing should be structured to respect the work of the author. I once read a very interesting piece of research by a marketing guru (it was an ebook before ebooks were even talked about as such, and went the way of the dodo when my HD crashed some years back. I can't remember either title or author).<br /><br />The research went something like this: if you charge shit, then people expect shit. Not only that, they'll often think of it as shit, because obviously the creator didn't value his or her work either.<br /><br />If I were to go into a shop where they sell items of a certain price, and one is suddenly much cheaper, I'd go 'what's wrong with it?'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com