Looks like small and medium sized publishers, along with Amazon, are trying an experiment with sale pricing on backlist books.
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Are publishers taking the plunge into experimenting with e-book pricing? Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) quietly launched Kindle Sunshine Deals, a two-week promotion pricing about 650 Kindle books “from numerous bestselling and award-winning authors” at $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. While individual authors have seen success putting their e-books on sale, this promotion is unique because of its scale and because it is being run by Amazon and appears to be in collaboration with book publishers.
As far as we can tell, no e-books published by the “big six” U.S. publishers (which use the agency model, setting their own prices for e-books on Amazon and paying Amazon a commission) are included in the sale. The books included in Sunshine Deals are all from small- to mid-sized publishers like Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Sourcebooks, and Tyndale House. Also included is Open Road Integrated Media’s edition of William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice. Chelsea Handler’s My Horizontal Life, published by Bloomsbury in 2008, is currently the bestselling Sunshine title.
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If you want to actually influence the publishers into offering backlist books at low prices, help yourselves to some deals. $$$ speak to publishers a lot louder than screeds on Internet forums .
