As a voracious reader who has a very tight budget and doesn't mind trying new authors: I wish to hell that publishers understood that they would get a lot more of my money, now and in the future, if they made first-in-series books accessible.
If you price all books in a series at $13 or more in digital, you are guaranteeing I won't be able to try, unless I remember to ask at the library.
@romancelandia To contrast with the post above, here's what happens when you start an ARC for the second book in a series, and look up the first, and find out it's 99cents: you buy it, knowing nothing about it, on the strength of liking the one you are reading (and are barely 13% in).
The other book I really liked that's 4th in a series but all titles cost $13 and up, digital? Most likely I won't seek them out again.
Was someone grumbling because you borrowed some books? I wish people wouldn't do that... People who borrow books can often afford to read many more books than they otherwise would-- a very good outcome
That said, the recent increase in KU's fee did not go to KU authors; compensation for reads have tested their lowest rates ever over the summer
Yeah, tell me about it (the low pay). I'm a KU author and I'm just... I don't want to go wide, because just the thought of having to do all the marketing etc myself is wrenching, but KU's just... not paying.
(Admittedly, I do need to poke my ads, but... :whine:)
Why is this being marketed as "women's fiction" when the blurb is all about genre romance, with all the attendant tropes and coded language?
(and don't get me started on my hatred for the whole "women's fiction" as opposed to the manly-man "literary" fiction and the "we know it's not about wimmenz feelings" so-called "literary" or "general/adult" fiction.)