Cheap ebooks – don’t let them fool you. Some of the best reads you can find these days have been released by indie authors, and you’ll find a short list of our top picks below.
The great thing is, you can find a fantastic book by some relatively unknown writer for $0.99. Often, the authors of these cheap ebooks choose to self-publish because they can get a higher percentage of return on their sales than if they were to go a more traditional route of Query > Agent > Publisher > Contract > Distribution a couple of years down the road.
Cheap ebooks that are worth the read:
The Two Crosses by Ernie Lindsey (Featured Novel)
The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan
Wool by Hugh Howey
Why Cheap eBooks Are So Cheap
These days, authors can finish their creative process, upload their novels (or any other form of written word), and once they’re submitted, they can be selling their cheap ebooks within about 24 hours. Surely, some content quality suffers because anyone that can put a sentence together can self-publish a book and call themselves a novelist/writer, but who’s to say what constitutes quality? When it comes to cheap ebooks, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, etc.
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In fact, a lot of popular authors of cheap ebooks choose to price their work at $0.99 because the barrier to entry is so low. You can’t even buy a candy bar for 99 cents now. If you offer your work for free as a promotional tool for a while and see a good response, upping the price to less than $1 creates an extremely tiny leap from free. Some authors have sold millions of cheap ebooks this way.
Thoughts on Cheap eBooks?
What are your thoughts on this? Have you come across some novels that weren’t actually worth the digital paper they were printed on? Do you think less of cheap ebooks because they’re priced at $0.99 or are you thrilled when you find a real page-turner and you got it for less than a buck?