If nobody bought books, then there'd be no Amazon. Every single thing on TV, streaming, wherever, it all had to be WRITTEN. Most of it started as books. We all saw the scandal about the guy embezzling millions from those authors through that agency. That money came from somewhere. Lots of people make money from writing. Y'know, I've read a lot of 99 cent books. You know what else? I stopped reading them. They were, in most cases, not very good (apologies to the authors who wrote them, but when your book has *spelling* errors in it, it's not very good). What you tried to do was join the race for the bottom. There's an old saw in selling; if ti's too cheap, people assume there's something wrong with it. Would you eat 25 cent tacos? I wouldn't. I'd assume that something was way off about that deal. A quarter? How good can they be? Will they poison me? Was the meat meowing last night? People looked at your 99 cent book and thought "too cheap to be any good"
ETA: I'm not counting books that are limited time specials, like when an author publishes the latest in a series, they might put the first book out there at 99 cents like a "gateway" book. NOT the same thing.
ETA: I'm not counting books that are limited time specials, like when an author publishes the latest in a series, they might put the first book out there at 99 cents like a "gateway" book. NOT the same thing.
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