Looks like self-publishing's a no go as well.

[avevale_intelligencer]

So, just for the ducks of it, I gathered three of my not-long-enough-to-be-novels too-long-to-be-short-stories stories--The Sallow Man, The Shop and the Truesingers one--together into one two-hundred-page MS, went to lulu.com, and priced it up.

Cheapest possible option, best part of seven quid per book. No way I can make anything on top of that. No way anyone would buy it anyway.

It's nice, I suppose, to know that I was right to put them up on the site for nothing, as that seems to be the only way anyone is going to get to read them. I just hope they're being enjoyed.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Yes, the price doesn't go up in a linear fashion (100 page ones don't sell for 1.50, not for a long time), and not even directly connected with other inflation indices. Or much of anything else that I can see, I've had some at around 200 pages for 7.99 and some at 5.99 in the last year (the US/UK market conversions really skew the results; it's always been 'interesting' how a book published in the UK and sold in the US, incurring shipping costs and at least sales tax (possibly import duty as well) still sells there for less (taking into account the conversion rate) than in the UK, while US books have often been re-labelled at the $=pound rate; the latter no longer happens as much, making US imports often cheaper now than the UK versions).