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Usually whatever I see on Amazon's DotD stuff will inevitably show up in my eReaderIQ filters, so no, I don't typically bother. I do periodically browse Kobo's Deals page, though, because sometimes stuff shows up there that I haven't seen flagged elsewhere. That's where I picked up the Budayeen Cycle from.
My only complaint is that the "____ genre books under $5" section doesn't seem to distinguish between books that are on sale and books that have a listing price under $5. That bugs me, because it results in books like Hyperion being perpetually in the Sci-Fi deals section, because the book's listing price is $4. |
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I mostly agree with you, and I HATE the new format at Kindle US, so I'm agreeing with you even more recently.
However, if you can travel/have a Kindle UK account, the UK Deal of the Day rather often will have a new book (like really new, major publishers, published within the past few months) for £0.99, for one day. (Mostly genre fiction...) And then it may be many months or longer before that book goes on sale again, and even then maybe not as low as £0.99. This is a behavior that is peculiar to the UK, AFAIK - at least I've not seen it at Kindle US or Canada. And as @maddz pointed out a while back, usually that one day price of £0.99 will be matched at Kobo UK, so you can usually then go there if you prefer. And the Deal of the Day at Kindle UK is only a few books, so not hard to check. I've gotten bunches of really-new most-recent-in-series books on this basis...usually even before the hold/waitlist at my library would let me get them... Quote:
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Like Suefue, I check that page daily. It's usually less than a dozen books (unless it's Sunday or a public holiday when you also get the Big Deal). 5 minutes tops? I also subscribe to the Daily Deal newsletter. Mind you, I agree the quality of Amazon Deals has dropped - too many KU or self-pubbed authors who I rarely read and to my mind just clutter up the results. What's been bugging me at Amazon recently is the sponsored items embedded in the search results; I'm seeing the same items multiple times in the search and it's confusing. It also inflates the number of pages as well. |
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