New post in: Nervous Kindle Author Takes A Stand: $6.99 or Bust
No one cares how much work-time an artist puts in. That isn’t the reader’s concern nor should it be. Some writers can bang out awesome work in fairly short order; some must labor over it for years. There’s no rule and no correlation between work-time put in and quality of output. Who cares?
What the reader is paying for is the product. Period. Either it’s competitive or it isn’t. If the latter, it probably won’t sell much (unless you’re a GENIUS at marketing). If the former, they still won’t care how long it took you to make, so long as it’s what they want when they want it.
Yes, absolutely, charge what you think is fair, but be honest with yourself as to how competitive your work actually is. If people are balking at shelling out 10 bucks for what is, essentially, a computer file, that should tell you something about your work rather than, say, the cheapness of the audience.
They are under no obligation to support us. Our job is to "please" them. Do it and get rich. Don’t and falter. Simple.
Just the same as every other business.
