{"id":57,"date":"2025-05-20T03:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:47:28","slug":"no-free-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/no-free-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"No Free Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Or to be more accurate, no free Bangkok Burn.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been free for years and gets downloaded between 25-30 times a month and that usually leads to about 5-8 Bangkok Wet sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the question for me is by reintroducing a price for the book, how much does it kill, or not, that 25-30 people that get into the books with the overflow of 25-40% that continue in the series?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So sort of an experiment. If it completely tanks the readership then it might become free again. We will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or to be more accurate, no free Bangkok Burn. It has been free for years and gets downloaded between 25-30 times a month and that usually leads to about 5-8 Bangkok Wet sales. So the question for me is by reintroducing a price for the book, how much does it kill, or not, that 25-30 people that get into the &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/no-free-lunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon-royle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}