Yeah I'd rather just pay more up front, unless the "revisions" are more like additional volumes.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Swati Swoboda <sswob...@igloosoftware.com>wrote: > I'd be willing to pay $30-$40 initial cost, but would expect to be able to > get the revisions for no cost then. > > With the revision model, I'd pay the initial $10 and then $3-$9 per > revision (depending on what's in the revision). It's an interesting model > then, because I can choose to not purchase sections/revisions that I am not > interested in. > > Thanks for doing this, Jack. Very excited! > > Swati > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stevo Slavić [mailto:ssla...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:39 AM > To: solr-user > Subject: Re: The book: Solr 4.x Deep Dive - Early Access Release #1 > > Consider https://leanpub.com/ for publishing. > > I'm in no way affiliated with them, just have positive personal buying > experience. One can and I regularly give more than what author requested as > min price. For such a work of 1k pages, would definitely pay more than $10. > > Kind regards, > Stevo Slavic. > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, AJ Weber <awe...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > On 6/21/2013 9:22 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > > > >> > >> I might be however confused regarding your strategy. I thought you > >> were going to do several different volumes, rather than one large one. > >> Or is this all a 'first' volume discussion so far. > >> > >> Pricing: $7.99 feels better for the book this size. Under $5 it feels > >> like it may be mostly filler (even if it is not). I don't think > >> anybody will pay every month just because it got updated. > >> > > I agree that I'm a little confused as to the pricing. Are you saying > > you'll keep updating it and everyone would just d/l the latest version > > monthly? If so, what's to stop someone from waiting to "subscribe" until > > it is entirely complete and just pay the $8 once for the whole thing -- > > versus those of us (me included) who would be sending our $8 every month > > and therefore receiving the same work at 10x the price (for example)? > > > > I'm with one of the previous responses: I'd be willing to pay $30 for > > early-access (and updates) to an eBook as a one-time-cost and then when > you > > release the final, set it at $40 or more. > > > > >
