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Originally Posted by NightBird
If I have a coupon or something is on sale I am more likely to grab that book now that is $2.99 on sale, since that is a limited time offer. If I have a huge TBR read pile I don't really need to buy now the book that is always $2.99...
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Except that when you buy a discounted paper book from a bookstore, the author gets the same royalty no matter what the selling price is.
Kobo's and other stores' discounting schemes were also affecting the author's royalties, not only at Kobo, but also at Amazon.
If you have a better solution, I'd like to hear it.
And it is not agency pricing, it's author pricing. The author sets the price. As I said before, Smashwords has no say in what price is set, except asking its partners to honor the authors' wishes.
If some of you are going to boycott Smashwords because they put control in the authors' hands, then that's your choice, but don't put them in the same category as the Big 5, who set their own prices. Their authors have no say once they sign on the dotted line.