Actually, I’m involved in e-publishing. The “sweet spot” to maximize sales revenue is between 2 dollars and 7 dollars a copy.
I’m QUITE aware of the issues and economics of the business.
You have a niche genre book, self-published in dead tree, that you’re trying to sell in the least-friendly format for an ebook (PDF). You could have easily ported it to .mobi for Kindle users, and .epub with free extensions to any major word processor. You could publish directly to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and cut your publisher out of an unearned share of profits.
But you didn’t. You have, instead, virtually put up a sign on your porch, and done the marketing equivalent of peddling copies on one or two street corners.
If you actually want to SELL ebooks, perhaps you might want to check out the business advice of pros who write on the subject of publishing and e-publishing. Kristine Kathryn Rusch comes to mind, her blog is at:
Or you might want to talk to Matt Bracken, aka Travis McGee here on FR.
I’m pointing off some fairly obvious mistakes that almost all new writers make.
Well, my porch at braylog happens to have 10,000 visits per month and I am willing to see if God wants to put it places it is supposed to go. It just came out this week and I am willing to see where it goes. As for the niche, it has about 20 million in the niche and the timing couldn’t be better.
I didn’t have time for publishing and have very limited time for marketing. I think it will do well in Texas and has already gotten to some very well known people there and will see what they say.
I have a feeling you are wrong about everything since I have been in commodities for 25 years and that is exactly what this book is. It is just the only commodity out there like this novel with this amount of knowledge. There is none like it and the initial reception is what I expected, you have to pay to play.
What books have you written?