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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 5, 2010 21:06:46 GMT
Werewolf Barclay Moonlight...well, GNS did work for a bank, after all! ;D
Willie By Moonlight...well, that's gotta be worth £8!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 5, 2010 21:09:06 GMT
Ah...just seen on the GNS forum that the rest will be about £4.
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Post by ceriadelle on Jul 6, 2010 15:34:01 GMT
Ah...just seen on the GNS forum that the rest will be about £4. Its only the rarer books that will be £8 - the rest £4.
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Post by shaun on Jul 6, 2010 16:26:59 GMT
Ah...just seen on the GNS forum that the rest will be about £4. Its only the rarer books that will be £8 - the rest £4. Well that's one way to keep them rare I guess by making them so expensive.
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Post by ceriadelle on Sept 17, 2010 11:00:05 GMT
www.guynsmith.com/ebooks/Hey guy's we took onboard your comments on the price for the rarer books and have put them to £6.50. Hope this is ok. This includes Truckers 1&2
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Post by funkdooby on Sept 20, 2010 7:02:49 GMT
If the two Truckers books were reissued in hard copy as paperbacks, £6.50 would still be quite expensive, considering how short they are. To charge that for ebooks is, IMHO, blatant profiteering.
The cost of the short novels (the Werewolf trilogy, Sucking Pit, Night of the Crabs etc) should be around the £2 mark, and maybe £3-4 for the longer works such Fiend, The Neophyte and Dead End, as there is presumably more input required in creating a longer ebook.
Just my opinion, as ever. Smithland has become an expensive place. The influence of Neil Jackson lives on....
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Sept 20, 2010 16:29:30 GMT
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Post by darrelljoyce on Oct 6, 2010 23:33:40 GMT
Just my opinion, as ever. Smithland has become an expensive place. The influence of Neil Jackson lives on.... Amen to that!
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Post by ian on Oct 9, 2010 18:02:09 GMT
So... Does Darrell and Funkdooby have a point regarding the pricing? I mean, to be fair, the main reason why the books are so expensive in the first place is because of their scarcity. Is it right for that value to be translated to a piece of digital data?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Oct 9, 2010 19:56:00 GMT
So... Does Darrell and Funkdooby have a point regarding the pricing? I mean, to be fair, the main reason why the books are so expensive in the first place is because of their scarcity. Is it right for that value to be translated to a piece of digital data? Ebook pricing is a tricky one. We're still working out how much to charge for the MAB book - but anything over the $5 dollar mark is usually frowned upon. Having said that, the big publishers will charge the same amount for eBooks as their hard copies, to ensure that print sales don't decline. That's starting to change now, but not across the board. For OOP/hard to find books - again, this is an ongoing issue with big names and publishers, because contracts between them didn't take account of the author's backlist. Publishers are trying to screw authors over this, knowing that there's real money to be made. Personally, I think that all the eBooks in Guy's back catalogue should have the same price regardless of the scarcity of the print versions. An expensive eBook opens itself to piracy, whereas a reasonably priced digital version will encourage consumers to buy the legit version. It's a lesson the music industry still haven't learned yet with MP3 downloads, and I'm sorry to say that the fledgling eBook market will make the same mistakes.
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Post by Jim on Oct 10, 2010 7:59:19 GMT
Ade you should check out J A Konraths blog posts about e publishing and pricing. I do think the GNS are overpriced.
Crossroads Press have just released Ron kelly's Hell Hollow for $4.99. It was, the only other format it is available in is a $60 limited edition.
Collectors will pay the price for actaul print books, but not for digital
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Post by steppedonwolf on Oct 10, 2010 21:33:40 GMT
You see? This is what I'm talking about... F Paul Wilson pointed this out on Friendface. www.amazon.com/19-for-Kindle-Hardback-BOYCOTT/forum/Fx6YV383ACMY1/TxZU10O705SJ4L/1/ref=cm_cd_tp_ft_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=0525951652Ken Follet's Fall of Giants is getting poor reviews on Amazon purely because of the price the publishers are charging for the digital version - even more expensive than the print one! Unfair on Ken, when the reviews are based purely on the pricing rather than the story itself. But it shows a very clear lesson: do NOT take the piss out of Kindle readers! Check out this reply: "Same here --- and I think $14.95 is too high, too. I will not pay this much for an e-book. And I'll not buy the hardcover,either. Book publishers should take a lesson from record companies. If you do not adapt to the new technology and market product at a fair price, there will soon be a huge, underground, file sharing market -- and it has already started. My daughter came home with her day-of-release copy of "Mockingjay" last week. It's already available on the Web for free, in epub, mobi and pdf formats. I'm not saying it's right (it's not), and I'm not saying I would do it (I wouldn't), but the fact remains that the market will dictate the proper pricing level -- and it is nowhere near $19.00!"
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Post by funkdooby on Oct 14, 2010 18:47:08 GMT
I think a higher price would be justifiable if GNS was releasing brand new works that weren't otherwise available. Professional writers do what they do to make a living and that's fair enough. An electronic version should never be as expensive as a hard copy, simply because it costs so little to produce and distribute compared to actual paper books. There's no printing costs. There's no distribution to the bookshops. No space needed.
£8 for Moonlight might be acceptable if it was a hard copy reissue. Or maybe even as an e-book released as a CD package. Or perhaps as an audio book. But for what you get, particularly in view of how short the novel is, it's just way too expensive.
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Post by ian on Oct 26, 2010 7:37:42 GMT
Anymore news on being able to get hold of his work in E-form?
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Oct 26, 2010 12:05:18 GMT
They're releasing his entire back catalogue into ebook format at the rate of one novel every 2 weeks (in chronological order). www.guynsmith.com/ebooks/To date the novels availiable in ebook format are:Werewolf by Moonlight The Sucking Pit The Slime Beast Night of the Crabs The Truckers: The Black Knights The Truckers: Hi-Jack! Return of the Werewolf Bamboo Guerillas Killer Crabs
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