WHY I LET YOU NAME YOUR PRICE FOR MY E-BOOKS

Matthew Wayne Selznick
6 min readFeb 21, 2023
For indie publishers, pay-what-you-want just might make sense!

You can name your own price — pay what you want — for any of my fiction or non-fiction e-books (minimum $1.00 USD; no maximum amount) when you buy directly from me via my website or through my digital sales and delivery partner, Gumroad.

As an independent author whose stated intention is to live a comfortable life solely through revenue generated by my creative endeavors, why would I make such a decision?

How could it possibly make sense?

There are two complimentary reasons.

One is based on marketing. The other serves my mission.

A Mission-Driven Decision

Everything I do in my creative and professional life can be distilled down to one thing: a desire to add to the culture.

Which is to say: bring new creative works into the world.

I do this in my day job as a creative services provider working with authors, podcasters, and other creators, helping them bring their creative works to fruition, to market, and to an audience.

When a client of mine releases a new book into the marketplace and that book finds its first readers, I know I have served my mission. What was once intangible and potentially tragically ephemeral becomes, thanks in part to my…

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Matthew Wayne Selznick

Creator Matthew Wayne Selznick lives in Huntington Beach, California. Name your price for his fiction and nonfiction: https://mattselznick.com/books