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Showing posts with label ebook pricing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebook pricing. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

ANASTASIA #3 HAS A NEW LOOK AND A NEW LOW PRICE!


Check out My New Look & New Low Price!

Anastasia here. As the star of an amateur sleuth mystery series, I want as many people as possible to read about me in the books written by author Lois Winston. Can you blame me? However, Lois and I both know that most readers only have a limited amount of dollars they can spend on their reading habit, and most choose to divvy up those reading dollars among a variety of authors and protagonists. Hey, I understand. Thanks to dead louse of a spouse leaving me with debt equal to the gross national product of Uzbekistan, I know what it’s like to count pennies and live on an austere budget.

That’s why we find it so frustrating when publishers charge an exorbitant price for ebooks. After all, ebooks don’t have anywhere near the production costs of physical books. There are no paper and ink costs, no printing costs, no warehousing costs, and no shipping costs involved in the production of an electronic book. The manuscript has already been edited, and the cover has already been created for the print version of the book. The only added expense is in the file conversion for the ebook. According to Lois, who is admittedly no computer genius, this is a relatively easy process that doesn’t involve much time. If she can do it, anyone can. Yet some publishers are now charging more for ebooks than for the paperback edition of the book. How does that make any sense?

Over the last few years Lois has slowly gotten her rights returned to her and thanks to modern technology, has republish her books herself—at a much more reasonable price for both the print and ebook editions.

I’m happy to announce that Revenge of the Crafty Corpse, the third book in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, is now finally available at a significant discount from her previous publisher’s edition. Whereas the publisher was charging nearly $10 for the ebook(yikes!), Lois’ version is a very fair $3.99. The only difference? A new cover and lower price. In addition, there's also a new edition of the paperback, again at a lower price than what the publisher had charged.

Revenge of the Crafty Corpse
An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 3

Anastasia Pollack’s dead louse of a spouse has left her with more bills than you can shake a crochet hook at. Teaching craft classes at her mother-in-law’s assisted living center seems like an easy way to supplement her meager income. But when Lyndella Wegner—a 98-year-old know-it-all with a penchant for ruffles and lace—turns up dead, Anastasia’s cantankerous mother-in-law becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Upon discovering that Lyndella’s scandalous craft projects—and her scandalous behavior—made her plenty of enemies, Anastasia sets out to find the real killer before her mother-in-law ends up behind bars.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

MONEY MATTERS--ANASTASIA ON THE PRICE OF EBOOKS

As the protagonist of a mystery series, I want everyone to read about me. Wouldn’t you? What good is it to have books written about you if no one ever reads them?

Now, those of you who know me, know that I’m on a tight budget, thanks to Dead Louse of a Spouse. For those of you who don’t know me, my not-so-dearly departed husband dropped dead awhile ago at a roulette table in Las Vegas when I, his trusting wife, thought he was at a sales meeting in Harrisburg, PA. That’s when I learned the blankety-blank son of a blankety-blank had gambled away all our savings and plunged me and our sons into Grand Canyon-depth debt. I’ve been trying to climb my way out ever since. I don’t relish the thought of spending my retirement living out of a cardboard box.

I know I’m not the only person in the world with money woes. Some have it worse than I do (although I doubt they’re stuck with their husband’s curmudgeonly communist mother living with them.) Many others don’t have it as bad but still have to keep to a budget.

I’m telling you all this because for some time now I’ve been royally annoyed at the price of the ebooks that feature me. How many people have enough discretionary income to plop down $8.00-$15.00 for an ebook more than once in a blue moon? Certainly not me and probably not many other people who would like to read about me.

Well, all that has now changed. Lois Winston, the author who writes the books about me, has received back the e-rights to the first two books in the Anastasia Pollack (that’s me!) Crafting Mystery series, and she’s made them available for the very reasonable price of $3.99. Yea!

Now all of you who hitherto couldn’t afford to read about me, can indulge yourselves. Just click on the links below for the ebook versions of Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun and Death by Killer Mop Doll. I promise you’ll be entertained by all the murder and mayhem Lois dishes up for me.

And did I mention Ralph, my Shakespeare-quoting parrot?

Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun

Death by Killer Mop Doll