View From the Bushes

Well, the whole pricing thing is keeping me up nights. The current model is that you get everything for one price. This is fine, if what you're buying doesn't change. For example, no one has any problem with paying 10 dollars for a book, because the book doesn't change, but this model breaks somewhat with my site because the book keeps changing, and new content is being added all the time (people who have followed the site for the last few months may disagree with that, but can we just pretend?) There's also the issue that people don't actually have the book; I have the book. (We could get into a discussion as to the relative merits of the a web based vs. a distributed application but trust me, it's not worth it.) Ideally I would like everyone to just buy the entire current book, but what happens when the book is 90 chapters, as opposed to the 18 chapters it is now (chapters=adventures for the metaphorically inclined, and once again for the nay-sayers, lets just pretend). And of course, there are going to be people out there who only want to buy one chapter at a time.

At that point, it becomes complicated on my end because I now have to track which chapters each person has, which isn't that big of a deal, but it's still substantially more complicated than the old model of one price for everything. Where it gets really complicated is if I try and combine the two models. Do people who purchased the first 18 chapters have those chapters forever? What if they pay for a year get 36 chapters skip a year and then come back? Of course, it could be that I'm making a novel out of a short story, but it's still giving me a headache.

As I may have mentioned earlier, I'll be at our local sci-fi convention this weekend. I imagine I'll have some pictures. Also, I plan on releasing the next Xenogenic NPC on Monday, and implementing the vanilla, diverse, exotic, outsider system, which I'm very excited about. Finally, if you're going to see "The Day After Tomorrow" read this review first.

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Ross