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<blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 5199237" data-attributes="member: 7808"><p>I'm also in the "nothing" category. </p><p></p><p>The first big issue is that you're talking about short stories. I have never, and probably will never, pay for a single short story. I will buy collections of short stories. I have many, and I love them. But I do not buy story singles. There's simply no way to know which short story in a bunch you're going to like (especially from a new author). I highly suggest getting a full package of stories together in a collection if you want to get traction. Also, note that the price per story in a print collection is generally extremely low - well under a dollar each. </p><p></p><p>Which brings me to your second issue: competition. Amazon literally has an entire section of the Kindle store for free books - not including the stuff that's free because copyright has expired. There are also numerous websites and newsgroups where you can get short stories for free. The comparison of free stories from known authors vs. paying for short story from an unknown author does not bode in your favor. </p><p></p><p>From what I've seen on Amazon, there are two methods of getting free books to result in sales: 1) Release the book as "Free for a limited time" to get it to rise up the bestseller lists, then switch to charging for it after interest has been generated. 2) Release the first book in a series as free, and charge customers for the later ones in the series. #2 would obviously be difficult with short stories.</p><p></p><p>The writing industry is rough to break into, and I wish you luck. If you ever decide to go with method #1 above, be sure to post about it here and I'll do my best to help by downloading a copy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deset Gled, post: 5199237, member: 7808"] I'm also in the "nothing" category. The first big issue is that you're talking about short stories. I have never, and probably will never, pay for a single short story. I will buy collections of short stories. I have many, and I love them. But I do not buy story singles. There's simply no way to know which short story in a bunch you're going to like (especially from a new author). I highly suggest getting a full package of stories together in a collection if you want to get traction. Also, note that the price per story in a print collection is generally extremely low - well under a dollar each. Which brings me to your second issue: competition. Amazon literally has an entire section of the Kindle store for free books - not including the stuff that's free because copyright has expired. There are also numerous websites and newsgroups where you can get short stories for free. The comparison of free stories from known authors vs. paying for short story from an unknown author does not bode in your favor. From what I've seen on Amazon, there are two methods of getting free books to result in sales: 1) Release the book as "Free for a limited time" to get it to rise up the bestseller lists, then switch to charging for it after interest has been generated. 2) Release the first book in a series as free, and charge customers for the later ones in the series. #2 would obviously be difficult with short stories. The writing industry is rough to break into, and I wish you luck. If you ever decide to go with method #1 above, be sure to post about it here and I'll do my best to help by downloading a copy :) [/QUOTE]
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