{"id":6359,"date":"2011-10-22T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2011-10-23T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:02:49","slug":"should-i-keep-it-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/should-i-keep-it-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I keep it free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/center>My first three ebooks have been available for free for several months, and I’m happy for all the attention they’ve received, but I’ve got mixed feelings now about keeping them free indefinitely.\u00a0 Downloads have more or less bottomed out, and they aren’t really driving any interest in my other work, so part of me wonders if I shouldn’t just raise the price to $.99.<\/p>\n

If I could, I would love to give away all my work for free.\u00a0 However, I also want to make a living as a writer, so that isn’t really practical.\u00a0 Granted, I don’t expect to make much selling these stories at $.99, but from a business side of things, I need to get at least some kind of recompense for my work.<\/p>\n

What I really<\/em> want to do is have the readers set the price for these stories, so that you can pay what you feel is fair.\u00a0 If finances are tight or you just want to try me out, you can download them for free and that’s great.\u00a0 If you’ve enjoyed my other work and want to support me, that’s great too.<\/p>\n

Right now, Smashwords is the only place I know of that has that option.\u00a0 If there aren’t any strident objections, I’m going to do that and make these stories $.99 at every other outlet.\u00a0 I’ll keep them available for free at least until November, though, so if you haven’t already picked them up, feel free to do so now.<\/p>\n

I also want to do this for the experiment: how does raising the price from free to $.99 affect sales?\u00a0 I think the “free train” has more or less run its course, so it will be interesting and useful to see where the new equilibrium ends up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first three ebooks have been available for free for several months, and I’m happy for all the attention they’ve received, but I’ve got mixed feelings now about keeping them free indefinitely.\u00a0 Downloads have more or less bottomed out, and they aren’t really driving any interest in my other work, so part of me wonders… Continue reading Should I keep it free?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[170],"tags":[89,560,515,584],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-career-decisions","tag-ebook-pricing","tag-ebooks","tag-free","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}