I am currently taking an online course taught by Dean Wesley Smith and Kris Rusch about creating your own short story market, and one of the things I learned in the very first week was about pricing your stories.
One trend I have noticed lately (and this may be purely psychological) are the number of books in the $1.99 range. Short stories, despite them being short, should never be $.99. It makes your work look and feel cheap. So the starting point for short stories should be at $1.99 (the exception would be if you were a massive bestselling author, where you could start at $2.99).
Over the next few months, I will be reviewing all of my stories and pricing them accordingly.
Don't sell yourself short by selling cheap. Cheap never wins.
This also works the other way too. Don't price your work too high either.
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