At 09:51 PM 28/11/00 +0100, Gene wrote:
>I still think that Damien B. et al. would be better off with a
>voluntary payment scheme.
I just checked my constantly-updated royalty statement at Fictionwise.com
(information you'd never see from an orthodox dead-tree publisher, btw),
where I currently have two items available for paid download. The cheaper
and very much shorter of the two, to my surprise, had received fewer
purchases. The longer one, `The Game of Stars and Souls' (or is it `The
Game of Souls and Stars'?), has earned back about half my [fairly modest]
advance already.
What does interest me, from a technical/marketing point of view, is how few
purchasers have troubled to click their rating of either story after they
read it. The posted histograms at
http://www.fictionwise.com/servlet/mwserve?action=view&template=author.htm&a
uthorid=25
show far fewer voters than purchasers. Maybe I'm fortunate that all those
who detested my work and ardently wished their money refunded (bad luck)
haven't hit the `Sheesh, it *stinks*' button...
Damien Broderick
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