What's a fair price for a 500-page trade paperback?

[Elok]

Okay, I've talked it over with other specfic authors on FB, and after a day of fiddling with Calibre ebook conversion software, hunting for glitch artifacts, and getting Kindle Direct Publishing to play nice, I've got an ebook with a fancy nested TOC (you can expand sections to pick an individual document to move to). I think I'll sleep on it, maybe edit out one nagging imperfection that's been bugging me, and then publish the thing.

[Elok]

Submitted. They say to allow up to 72 hours, but they said that for the hardcopy version and it came out in a day. It'll be $4.76, and available on something like a dozen Amazon markets. I didn't see Chile on there; can you use US, Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, or Brazil?

[Jon Miller]

I am american and spend 50% of my time in the US. I have access to the US market.

JM

[Elok]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073PCRQFK...+curse+of+life

It shows up looking kind of weird in the "look inside" preview, though it looked great in the KDP previewer itself. I've checked a couple of professionally published books (Eragon, Ender's Game, AGoT, whatever came to mind) and they all looked similarly ugly, I assume because they're reading an awkward conversion for a non-Kindle reader. I hope that's typical?

[BeBMan]

Do you mean this view? So it looks in my browser (FF). Looks fine to me...

[Elok]

I was thinking more of the way all the pages run together so the epigraph is half an inch above the word "Prologue," etc. It shows up as a separate page on the preview on Kindle Direct Publishing. As long as it looks good on a Kindle, I don't care.

[rah]

Well a book that I was waiting for is now due for release before the end of the month and I needed a few dollars to get the order over 25 for free shipping so I'm proud to say that I included your book (hardcover) to put the order over the top.

I'll probably start reading it later next month. IT BETTER BE GOOD

[Elok]

Well, it's at least sufficiently not-bad that Lori and BUncle couldn't bring themselves to tell me it sucked.

You did see it's available for Kindle, right? I mean, I'm glad you bought the trade paperback version, but if you're worried about protecting your investment, $4.76 is a lot lower than $14.53.

[rah]

I happily support the arts, especially from those that aren't strangers. And I've read thousands of books and quite a few of them sucked. From what I've seen here, I highly doubt it will fall into that category.

And yeah, I saw the kindle version but I'm an old timer that prefers the feel of paper.

[Elok]

Just got a Kindle myself, for mostly unrelated reasons. Handy, would be handier if the library had more ebooks in stock that I actually wanted to read.

[rah]

My wife has one and swears by it. I've used hers when we went to the beach, but I'm not a convert yet.

[Jon Miller]

Short review (I promise that I will put reviews up on Amazon/Goodreads):

It was actually really good, probably the best sci-fi/fantasy I have read this year. Plot, characters and dialogue were good. Better than many of the big publisher authors and way better than almost all small publisher sci-fi/fantasy I have read. There were characters to like and to not like, which wasn't an issue in previous decades but is one in this decade.

I finished the book in less than 3 days, buy not because it was a super quick read. It actually took a little time to get into it, because of how unique the setting was.

The setting was very well done in addition to being unique.

Would read sequel/buy hardcover.

JM

[Jon Miller]

I also liked that, while the story could have a sequel, it doesn't have to have a sequel. I mostly meant by the above that I would read another Elok book.

JM

[Elok]

Awesome, thanks!

[Elok]

Thanks for the Amazon review! I have one rating on Goodreads, but I assume it's not you, since it's somebody named "Korbyn Dallas" from the UK who one-starred it and left no review. Odd. I wasn't aware I'd even sold a copy in the UK. Hell, I've only sold 21 copies, period, and eight of those are my mom.