Sentences with phrase «pricing of short stories»

A lot of people arguing with the pricing of short stories above 99 cents.

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

Its price is rising only because people all over the world are hearing stories of how others doubled or tripled their money in a short period — and they don't want to miss out.

To make a somewhat long story short, when Mylan raised the price of the EpiPen, they went from a company quelling fear to a company instilling fear.

To cut a long story short, the next set of producer and consumer price inflation data that we received was more reassuring.

To cut the story short, considering the price of Garnier I can easily close my eyes on this small «residue» issue.

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There's this whole psychology of pricing thing, and long story short, you've just got ta believe in your product if you want others to, as well.

The first out of three single - player mission DLCs for Starcraft 2 provides a promising story which may be an improvement on Blizzard's recent stale storytelling.The duration of this pack is somewhat short for its price, but the production values are still top notch.

If only it weren't for the inflated ticket price that comes with it, «The Lion King 3D» would represent a welcome revival of a kids movie that combines a strong story with memorable songs and lush use of animation and color that is nothing short of stunning.

If the completist inside you opts to pick up this set at its reasonable release date discount pricing, you'll likely want to still keep the Toy Box, if only for the worthwhile extras from that set which have not been ported over here, such as the Tin Toy short, several animation featurettes, more expansive art galleries, original story treatments, sound effects - only track, and the making - of documentary that has been unfavorably abbreviated.

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One - dimensionality is a small price to pay for this kind of combustibility, the kind of short - fuse story where anything can and does happen.

Long story short, Jorge Soria, Joe, and myself had a fair discussion on the price of the vehicle, met in the middle, and both parties were happy.

Long story short, Tracy got us $ 10,000 knocked off the price of the truck from Coastal, and got it for us asap.

Brock Clarke is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently a collection of short stories, The Price of the Haircut.

Pricing can be a heated topic in the independent e-publishing world and almost everything in here will simply be my opinion based on my experience of the last two years, six novels, and numerous odd short stories and novellas.

Additionally, I also found it curious that in another recent post by Howey regarding a new short story he published for 99 cents, he expressed so much guilt concerning the size of the work versus the price point that he advised stealing the story somewhere if the reader, or potential thief, felt the story was not worth 99 cents.

Jacking the price of a 30 page short up to $ 9.99 or even $ 4.99 would be suicide for a short story writer (unless you're Hugh Howey;)-RRB- Also as an aside.

You can really see the profit difference with issue # 18 because it was priced at $ 3.99 for 40 pages of short stories.

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.

I waited until I had the third book out in the series before dropping the price of the first to zero (though I did have my Ice Cracker II short story out for free, and I think that was a big help with convincing people to drop the $ 3 for the novel!

But the $ 4.99 price for a paper edition of the short story makes the $ 2.99 look better to the consumer and I do sell short stories at that price.

Continue reading «Short Stories Have Been Priced out of the Market»

I do try to keep my prices rational across various titles, so all of the short stories in a genre are generally priced the same, for example — though if one of them is extremely popular, I might raise the price a dollar.

A poet, playwright, essayist, short - story writer, memoirist and novelist, Price bequeathed to us a body of work, including translations of the Gospels and other passages from the Bible, which explored intimately the fraught world of human relationships.

I was hesitant to raise prices on my short stories, until I remembered how I'd bought a short story from one of my favorite authors (Michael Bunker) at $ 2.99 and thought nothing of it.

Also, since my collections of short stories tend to be novel length, I follow that pricing for them.

Elizabeth Stuckey - French is a highly regarded author of literary fiction whose short stories have been shortlisted for PEN / O» Henry Prize and Narrative honors, but she's written a darkly funny, deeply ironic book that deserves to become a wildly popular novel (and will become that if Amazon figures out the book's potential and prices it to sell.)

Collecting eighteen short stories, The Crater will be released as a limited edition, 2000 copy run with a hardcover finish, colour inserts and a current price of $ 34.95 / US.

I also didn't have to write the story and develop the characters while thinking in the back of my mind, «It's not long enough to be a book,» or think, «No one is going to pay bookstore prices for such a short novella.»

Both Penguin Group and Random House have initiated their own short story digital publishing platforms and, while the programs do meet the needs of customers in terms of a low price - point and a shorter format than novels, the real gain to be made is not just in terms of bringing back readers» demands for a historically - loved format.

Penguin Shorts will debut at the # 1.99 price and the nine launch titles will be A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin, a memoir of his days growing up in Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s; At the Hairdressers by Anita Brookner, a novella exploring issues of trust, betrayal and loneliness; Protection by Helen Dunmore, a story examining how far you would go to ensure your family's safety; The Happiness of Blond People by Elif Shafak, an examination of national identity and immigration; How To Set Up a Free School by Toby Young; How to Be a Rogue Trader by John Gapper; recipe title Perfect Christmas Day by Felicity Cloake; The Battle of Alamein: North Africa 1942 by John Bierman & Colin Smith, the first of a Great Battles series to be available through Penguin Shorts; and Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana by Saul David.

Amazon's Short Reads, which features short stories by prominent authors, will sell content in the $ 1.99 price range that is intended to satisfy a quick story urge without the commitment of a full - length Short Reads, which features short stories by prominent authors, will sell content in the $ 1.99 price range that is intended to satisfy a quick story urge without the commitment of a full - length short stories by prominent authors, will sell content in the $ 1.99 price range that is intended to satisfy a quick story urge without the commitment of a full - length work.

Long story short: Prices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook pPrices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook pricesprices:

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.

The senior VP of digital and audio publishing at Hachette Book Group told Publishers Weekly recently that author David Baldacci's Kindle Single 15 - page short story No Time Left, priced at $.99 was «tremendously successful» for them and characterized the publisher as «extremely satisfied with the results.»

the «comeback» of the short story does seem to have hit a perception - price problem, with a few people reporting they still do well with 99 cents shorts, but most people not

I sell GOBS of short stories on Smashwords for.99 - 1.99 but hardly any on Amazon where my novels do much better being priced from 2.99 - 6.99.

This price point of 99 cents works for my offerings as my continued sales indicate there is currently still a market for short stories.

Without another seismic change in the market pushing novel prices up, the future of individually published short stories is history.

Although short stories can be sold feasibly, having them priced under $ 2.99 will spell trouble for your royalties (you earn 35 % instead of 70 %).

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.

I recently read one self - publishing advocate who says a strategy to pursue is writing scads of short stories and pricing them at $ 2.99 each.

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.

General Guidelines We will be publishing stories in the following lengths: Short Stories (Word Count 5,000 to 14,999) Novella (Word Count 15,000 to 50,000) Novel (Word count 50,000 to 90,000) Royalty rate is 40 % of Gross (that's the cover price) for single author stories in the following lengths: Short Stories (Word Count 5,000 to 14,999) Novella (Word Count 15,000 to 50,000) Novel (Word count 50,000 to 90,000) Royalty rate is 40 % of Gross (that's the cover price) for single author Stories (Word Count 5,000 to 14,999) Novella (Word Count 15,000 to 50,000) Novel (Word count 50,000 to 90,000) Royalty rate is 40 % of Gross (that's the cover price) for single author titles.

For several of my 10,000 to 15,000 word short stories I feel $ 1.99 is a good price where $ 2.99 feels too expensive.

In the very short version of this story, Apple got together with big publishing and invented something called the agency pricing model.

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.