That will be
the price of my short story collection on Smashwords *, where I'll be making the work available as an e-book.
Not exact matches
Brock Clarke is the author
of seven books
of fiction, most recently a
collection of short stories, The
Price of the Haircut.
My search for an ebook version
of Nightmares and Geezenstacks, released as a Bantam Book in 1961 with a cover
price of $.40, came up
short, although many
of Brown's novel and
short -
story collections are available in Kindle form.
Also, since my
collections of short stories tend to be novel length, I follow that
pricing for them.
I've never had a book free on Amazon, though do have a
short story collection free on Smashwords (Amazon still won't
price - match), but
of course, no promo with that.
I'm also
of the opinion that both authors and readers might be better served by a
collection of shorts — say five to seven
stories —
priced at $ 2.99.
I agree with the others posters: for that
price, create a
collection of several
short stories.
Significantly for publishers» profit margins, a tie - in to a very popular media property can command a premium
price: in the case
of Brokeback Mountain, the individual
short story was pulled out
of a
collection, packaged by itself with the art from the film — and
priced at $ 9.95 for its 64 pages.
Speculative fiction author Tobias Buckell experimented with the
pricing of a
short -
story collection over the span
of a year, and has published the results.