Thanks for all of your advice and feedback. After reading articles and your feedback, I decided to go for broke. I went for 2.99 because if the sales are still bad at the end of the week, I can drop the price. I can keep dropping until it is back in ‘sale mode’. Maybe the .99 cent eBook has run its course for me. It is possible that after a certain amount of reviews and rankings, people no longer think the book should be .99 cents.
Prodigy of Rainbow Tower will still be starting at 2.99 and Beginning of a Hero will dropped to 1.49 after a 2 day free period. At least that’s the plan right now. No idea when to fit the 3.99 in there. I’m going on record as saying I hate the pricing side of things.
Legends of Windemere 
I put Catskinner out there at $2.99 and never changed it except for the KDP free days. I hate pricing, too.
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Now I just need to figure out what to do when I have more of the series out. I’m still wondering if a .99 cent book can be enticing to get the overall series. Some research I did showed that people will enter a series at .99 cents and pay as high as 5.99 for future books.
Maybe I should just get a dart board and see what happens.
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Yeah, that’s what the Smashwords survey stated was the sweet spot for Indie books. http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/2-99-is-most-common-price-for-smashwords-indie-ebook_b35475
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I’m also hearing that something happened this week that caused a sales drop across the board. Somebody even said that late May and June are becoming infamous for bad sales. So many confusing reports.
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Yeah, it’s all part of being a “new” industry I think.
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I guess so. Though it is strange the things kind of dropped all at once.
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No, the purchase price is still .99
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It’s going to be that for a few days until Amazon fixes it. From their email, their system thought it found my book for .99 cents and did a price match. After my email to them, they checked and found that it wasn’t an issue. So, it will take a few business days to fix. Guess this makes it an impromptu Memorial Day sale.
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Ah, glad it’s getting fixed.
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Good choice Charles. I think it might spark some additional sales, especially to those people that wouldn’t purchase a book at the ,99 cent price point, but might think more highly of a book in the $2.99 category. Worst case you can always reduce the price. Good luck with this, I hope it works out for you.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking. Thanks.
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Summer time is actually a down time for entertainment retail in general with the exception of movies in theater. Something about more people outside, enjoying the Sun etc etc.. Or something like that.
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Good point. Guess I have no choice. Time to blot out the sun.
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$2.99 sounds good. Let me know how it works out!
And guess what? I nominated you back for the Semper Fidelis award! 🙂
Find the details here: http://whenibecameanauthor.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/semper-fidelis/
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I hope this works well for you Charles. Keep us posted!
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Thanks. So far, not that impressed, but it’s only been 3.5 hours.
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Do I detect a note of frustration tinged with impatience?
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A bit. 😀
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