Balanced Libraries: Price increase coming
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change currently sells for $21.50 through Lulu.com.
That price will go up at some point–no earlier than September 14, 2007 and (barring unforeseen circumstances) no later than October 1, 2007.
All orders placed and paid for before September 14, 2007 at Lulu.com will be honored at the current price.
Incidentally, with any luck at all the next Cites & Insights Book will be out before the price changes on this one. More about that when I’m certain it will be ready.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Out of curiosity, what is prompting the change? Is Lulu changing their prices? You’ve determined that your first book is worth more when your second book arrives? A whim? None of my business? (The last, of course, is a perfectly valid response…)
July 28th, 2007 at 8:36 am
After looking at “comparable” books–four of them in the U.S., pointedly ignoring the $150 (!) UK paperback–as priced by Amazon, I concluded that my book is underpriced.
Mammoth waves of sales haven’t made up for that bargain pricing.
“Giving back” becomes less of a factor as, well, future sources of steady income haven’t been wildly forthcoming so far. Not that I’m ever going to make a living from book sales, but when there’s no salary coming in (the case as of 10/1 unless something surprising happens in the next 9 weeks), every dollar helps.
(C&I as a much more important form of giving back is a separate issue…and yes, I probably will be writing a post about that soon.)
So, given that sales are even more modest than I anticipated and that I seem to have undervalued my own writing, I’m repricing at the mean of (Amazon prices for) the four books I consider more-or-less comparable.
And I’m providing plenty of warning so that people can order the book at the lower price, The level of activity that results will probably determine when during the 9/14 to 10/1 period the price change actually happens. (Why 9/14? I turn 62 on 9/14. Why 10/1? I become unemployed on 10/1.)
July 28th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Another Virgo librarian!
July 30th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Fair enough! Thanks for satisfying my curiosity…