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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Rhadin - I have asked Mark Coker if the coupons effect the amazon price. I still do not think it will, but I will await his answer.
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I'll be interested to hear what he says.
However I'm pretty sure that issuing coupons for a Smashwords book doesn't and won't affect the Amazon price. Amazon doesn't have a team of people manually checking prices and looking for websites offering discount coupons - they have an automated "bot" which trawls around looking for ebooks on sale with other online retailers which are also available in the Kindle bookstore, and compares the price on those online bookstores with the price of the book in the Kindle bookstore. I've never seen any reports of someone's book being discounted on Amazon where the only "lower price elsewhere" involved coupons like on Smashwords.