Not exactly what I meant. The free content from the e-book would make up about 5-15% of the total book, so I’m definitely not giving most of it away.

However, if you include my other free e-book, free program and nearly 600 free articles, you can see how I’m not in the habit of hoarding my content.

-Scott

I just want to confirm:
$40 would be the cost of only 10% of your book, since 90% was already free?

Obviously this difference is going to cause different gut-reactions in people. Some may see it as being overpriced. Others may feel that $40 isn’t a lot to spend if it can give detailed advice for improving their learning habits that aren’t found elsewhere.

I’ve spent over $40 for e-books of a similar size before–because the ideas were really valuable. Obviously, if you feel that the ideas in this book aren’t worth $40 to you, I’ll lose a potential reader. But my hopes are that the book can make an impact with a small group of people.

So, yes, I can understand some concerns. But I’m not trying to be in the business of creating a book you skim through once and never think about again.

Part of the reason I release so much free content is that I want the majority of my ideas to be available to anyone, regardless of cost. With the other 10% of my writing time I like to create products that have concentrated value to a select number of people. So even if you don’t decide to read the book; the preview version, plus two chapters next week and my original articles and e-books should be useful.

On the other hand, if the book were fifteen dollars cheaper I would have bought it in a heartbeat. Such is the trick that mere numbers play in our minds

I think 200 pages is quite sufficient for a book of this kind, but I feel that oftentimes authors simply are unable to come up with the sufficient words to describe what they’re trying to say and leave too much up for interpretation by electing to be “concise.” And actually, Scott uses a huge font with plenty of margins around the pages and graphical illustrations, so I’d estimate that in a regular printed book format, the book probably would be less than 100 pages. I don’t think that’s a cause for alarm but I can certainly understand Kaley’s concern.