Thursday, March 24, 2011

Well, sheeeeet

The .99 cent experiment isn't working out too well thus far. I've sold some books since I dropped the prices--thing is, the books I've sold are the $9.99 murder book, not the cheaper ones. So much for the bargain price shit. Probably raise the prices back up in a few days, not that it matters much one way or the other.

After a week or so of beautify 80-degree weather, we're going back into a cold phase again. Cloudy and only in upper 40s-low 50s today and getting down into 20s tonight. Temp set to stay in 50-60 range for the next week, with several days of rain.

Spring, my ass.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Update

I've seen several mentions lately that writers have been cleaning up on Kindle with .99 cent books. Not much profit in that, however apparently they sell more like hot cakes than do overpriced files. Volume is the name of the game.

So, I decided to lower the price of all my Kindle book to that, with the exception of the murder book; it's the best seller I have on there and I'd be foolish to drop it to .99 cents, though I might back it off a bit from the current $9.99.

I have sold a few Kindle copies of the vampire book for the $7.00 price (and a few paperback as well), but nary a Kindle copy of Parallel Blues or Smoke and Thunder has been downloaded. This move may not help that situation much, but then when something isn't selling period, it can't hurt it much either.

I was thinking yesterday that some sort of instructional "how-to" thing would probably do very well in the Kindle realm. And then I remembered that many years ago, when I was in the mobile home manufacturing business, I wrote a "buyer's guide" concerning manufactured housing -- things to watch out for, to avoid, to insist upon. I'm going to find that thing, which is here somewhere in the mountains of old paper files and manuscripts I've gathered over the years. Will transcribe it and place it on Kindle and then sit back and become one of those ".99 cent Kindle millionaires" I've been reading about. (Won't hold my breath because I don't look particularly good in blue. Hell, don't look particularly good in ANYTHING at this point.)

Going to Camden for a few days tomorrow. Hope I can find that old manuscript, because I'll have plenty of time to work on it; no Internet at her place, though we're planning to correct that before too long. (Spent about an hour searching for it, found about 7 pages but couldn't locate the rest. Did find a ton of old correspondence from fellow writers dating back over 35 years...knew I had that stuff, just didn't know exactly where it was.)

Oh, well. I can start over on that.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Damn, I love this shit!

Book just keeps on selling on Kindle! Can't beat $7.44 a pop. Let it roll.