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Price Check · 15 July 2023


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I decided to change the prices on my books. All in one fell swoop.


I am all for doing research. The problem is that I often do the research after the fact. After I need to understand Christian apologetics. After I write a book about D.B. Cooper. After I price said book about D.B. Cooper. Actually, I did the research about D.B. Cooper long before I wrote it. I was almost obsessed with the Cooper hijacking. But then again, I was not even a teenager when it happened, and when I was obsessed.


At any rate, I actually do research when called for. At least a little bit.


So the story about research began when I made a bunch of my books into print books last December. I was trying to be clever when I said in the “also by” (or whatever I called it) page that the books I was creating on that day or the next were still digital only. I should have just said that all the ones I was turning into print books were print books. I just thought it would be fun to be like the big publishing houses and say that the books later in the series were still just digital only. Which is a fix that I was trying to make the other day when things went awry. (Which is a totally different story.) Okay. The start of the story is really not about research at all, but I like it so I am not going to cut it out.


Well the next part of the research story is that I priced my books according to a single article that I read. It said that paperbacks ought to be between $12.99 and $19.99. Or something like that. I remember the $12.99 because it was what I settled on. I would go for the low range from that one article.


I did make a couple sales. A couple as in two. It might have been three, but I think it was two. Woo hoo! I had some book sales. I figured a couple months with a book sale here and a book sale there and I could be like Old MacDonald. A book sale here and a book sale there. Here a sale. There a sale. Everywhere a sale sale. Old MacDonald had a bookstore. E I E I O.


Well, those couple sales were just a trickle that turned into a stoppage. Ah well. I figured I would just let things lie. Who knows. Maybe somebody will write a review and somebody else would buy a book.


To make a short story a little longer, I decided to think about book sales. Just a little. Which is when I did a little more research.



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Turns out that middle grade fiction is not exactly like paperbacks. And it turns out that maybe price mattes when it comes to length of books. Well, I did not read tons of research on the subject, and I might need to do even more research, but I decided that I would lower the prices on my books. Just a couple bucks. I figured it could not hurt. After all, nothing from nothing leaves nothing. Just like the song says.


So all of my print books are currently $9.99. Except for one. That one is $5.99 (The Worst Ad Campaign). That book is basically as low of a price as I can make it. I just want church planters to have a good laugh and some foundational thoughts as well.


Anyway. You can check out all of my books (as in see what I did, not as in check out in a library, which is a different research project) on my Amazon page. You can get any or all of my print or digital (or both) books. Just click now.


Anyway. I just thought that people might be interested to know two things. One, I do a little research. And two, I have a bunch of books out there for sale. (Oh yeah. This is one of my marketing pieces for said books.)


If I was to do it all over again, I would not change a thing. Not because I think I am that great. Just because that is who I am. I do the research when I absolutely need to do it. And not a moment earlier. Whether that research is about Christian apologetics, story, or price. By the way… Did I mention that I lowered the price on my books?

© 2023 Michael T. Miyoshi

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