Recently, I've been made aware of some crazy pricing of the Dynasty Codes books on Amazon and other retailers, though mostly Amazon, which are understandably putting some readers off.
I've heard of pricing at $50 or even $80 (!!?!??!) per book, and just want to let people know where I stand with this.
This is NOT the pricing that I set for the Dynasty Codes books.
I know it's quite common for Indie authors to have to price higher on their books to cover costs of printing and production and then (hopefully) chip away at their editing and design costs. Yes, I hope for this too.
But let me reassure you it is definitely not $50 or anything like that.
The RRP for both Origin Curse and Dark Tides is $34.99 (AUD) each, which was set because it was same as trade industry standard for a book of that size.
If other popular fantasy books are set at that price, then mine will be too.
I set it at the lowest possible price I could for my wonderful readers so you could enjoy the story without being out of pocket, at the same price you're used to paying for books of this size. Any lower, I'd be paying for people to buy the books.
So, honestly, when I see Amazon having it higher than this, even selling at $40 per book, it makes me quite frustrated.
But I can't do anything about it.
I'm going to keep looking into it to see what I can do to make the price as accurate as possible so you all can enjoy the story without breaking the bank, but until then please bear with me while the stores are having their power trips.
It's normal. It happens. They do their own thing and change the prices at their own will.
It's scary for first-time authors to see, and annoying to see when readers turn away because of the price and we have no control over it.
So rest assured that the price of Dynasty Codes is quite normal. If you see it looking crazy, I hope you'll come away for a couple of days and check back later and get to buy at a normal time.
And if it gets crazy, get in touch, and I'll see what I can do for you directly - where I get the power to sell at the real price I set it. Which will always be industry normal :)
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