Sunday
Feb192012
How to Disagree Like Civilized Gentlemen
A WINNER HAS BEEN SELECTED!! Alright, it's time for the third and final chance to win a signed copy of my book “Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy.”
Again, to enter all you have to do is leave a comment on this comic (How to Disagree Like Civilized Gentlemen). The winner will be selected at random on Thursday morning (Feb 23rd). Again, I will ask a question that you can, but are not obligated to, answer.
Today's question: How much would you pay for a digital, DRM-free version of one of my books?
Just curious.
February 19, 2012
Reader Comments (333)
I would pay up to $10 without hesitation. Any more and I'd probably stop to think about it.
Now, THIS is an original strip. I enjoyed it greatly.
Now, about the digital book... considering the paperbacks sell for about 10, I'd gladly pay 5 for a digital version (assuming it's a hi-res PDF that I can print myself).
I hope "just curious" is just an expression, and you're actually considering this.
I would probably pay about $8 for a purely digital version, and maybe $15 ($20 on impulse) for an embodied ebook. (Warning: Somewhat NSFW imagery present on other pages of site.)
$9.99..
oh, and colonel sanders.. awesome!
I would damage my sword-cane for a digital copy of your book!
I think you meant to say that you implied that Rick was a fool.
$9.99. $11.99 if there are good bonus features. $18.99 if both books are included.
OVER 9,000 pennies.
Rick looks like he is wearing a Colonel Sanders costume. Sanders was a southern gentleman I guess...
I think you implied that Rick is a fool, and he inferred it.
The top of your cane makes me think it might be one of those totally unfashionable ones with a platform at the bottom with four feet. Which, come to think of it, would be the best disguised sword-cane ever. No one expects an ugly medical quad-cane sword-cane!
I think $5 for the book would be a lock. You might have gotten more, but you sabotaged yourself with this strip, because you got me thinking about that Rutger Hauer movie Blind Fury. So maybe I can find it on DVD or iTunes or somewhere cheap. So I need a couple bucks for that. It's your own fault.
$NZ10. Are you wearing a bathrobe Scott? it looks a bit long for a smoking jacket...
I think I'd be willing to pay $5
As a kid I always thought sword-canes were the coolest things in the world and wanted one in the worst way. I inspected lots of canes but never found one with a sword. I'm happy to see they're still cool. And I'm really happy to see that only the cool canes have swords.
Excellent strip! The ones where Rick gets half a point in are the BEST and funniest, imho. And the medical cane v. truly awesome cane/subtle plug for masking tape mummy contest was truly awesome!
I would pay you 1,200 for a digital copy of one of your books...in yen.
I like the regular paper books.
Would your book also be gluten-free? Because I could only get it if was free of the gluten.
But seriously, some successful self-published ebook authors have said that $2 is the sweet spot for an ebook. We, you're loyal fans, would no doubt pay more. But you may want to take that $2 figure into account if you want to cast a wider net, like trying to sell it on Amazon.com.
I probably wouldn't buy a digital version at all, sorry -- I generally read ebooks on my Kindle or my phone, both of which are great for text but really bad for anything graphical.
I wouldn't if there was a printed version available. Easier to keep near the toilet.
Digital copy? I'd probably never get one in the first place unless it was free.
I'm much too old-fashioned, I prefer books of the sharp, fragile and highly flammable variant. Kicking back on the couch to read with an overheating laptop in the lap just isn't the same. :(
NGAAA!!!
Truthfully, I'm a techno-luddite (despite being thirty-something and working in IT my entire career). You've heard of late adopters? I'm a +5yr adopter. I probably won't have an e-reader of any kind until they're built into Tamagotchi and come in a cereal box. Or a kind soul gets me one as a gift.
Say, have you heard of this band The Beatles? I think they show promise.
Scott, a true gentleman needs a sword-cane that isn't lame.
"How much would you pay for a digital, DRM-free version of one of my books?"
Agree with one of the above answers, $10 for an instant, impulse purchase. I'd probably go up to $20 if given a little while to think about it, and $30-$40 for a 'I have disposable cash, why not treat myself with an irrational but enjoyable purchase' the next time I feel rich.
Also I had a sword-cane (well, a cane) but it was damaged in a dispute. If only you had released this strip earlier.