Is it concievable that .99$/£ books, e-b or otherwise, are at that price because they aren't very good ?
That have perhaps been offered at more and not sold ?
That have been rejected by publishers ?
I have to say that, being all for supporting literature and authors......... a lot of these I've tackled, and the free, more "contemporary ones I've read (and far more I didn't finish) were, frankly, garbage !
And with quite a few I've got a bit in, and thought "this is a really good, fairly original idea, ruined by dreadful writing, sad "tricks" (those italics - grrrr) and what seems a serious under-estimation of any possible readers intelligence".
So there.