Quote:
Originally Posted by Beryll Snyder
There are plenty of ebook bargains. Amazon as well as others have free ebook days and many authors are giving their products away for free. Naturally there is no physical overstock. If you consider this as imbalance between supply(the wish of the author to be read) and demand, it seems to amount to the same thing.
|
You are right, there will be ebook bargains, but it's a different mechanism. From the consumer's point of view these deals might seem similar to remaindering books, but the goal is different.
What you are describing are advertising or marketing promotions really. The technology of ebooks opens up different avenues to reach readers, another example is the ability to download a sample of an ebook. The give-aways get eyeballs reading an author's product with the hope that they'll like what they see and buy some of the author's other books or generate some positive word of mouth about the book/author.