Book Review: Don’t Just Roll the Dice - A usefully short guide to software pricing

Book Review: Don’t Just Roll the Dice - A usefully short guide to software pricing by Neil Davidson: Publisher- Simple Talk Publishing: ISBN- 13: 978-1-906434-38-0

This is the first book I have read on software pricing. Don’t Just Roll the Dice is excellent book for those who are new to software pricing game. It covers various aspects of pricing mechanisms and factors affecting the same.

Book is divided in to five chapters, which nicely elaborate the pricing process from simple economic theory to real life scenario. As the name suggests it is short guide. It does not go into details of pricing mechanism like discounting to enterprise or bulk customers, trade commissions etc. But nevertheless book is good for starters and must read for every one who are involve in pricing decision of software.

The book is released under Common create license which makes book free to read and distribute.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.


One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Book’s web presence http://www.dontjustrollthedice.com/
2. Author at Twitter: http://twitter.com/neildavidson
3. Author’s Blog: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org

4. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Just-Roll-Dice-usefully/dp/1906434387/
5. Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Just-Roll-Dice-usefully/dp/1906434387/
6. Book Review: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/10/dont-just-roll-the-dice-usefully-short-guide-to-software-pricing.html
7. Another Book Review: http://blog.teambox.com/dont-just-roll-the-dice-pdf/
8. Some comments about book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7039888-don-t-just-roll-the-dice-a-usefully-short-guide-to-software-pricing