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Originally Posted by library addict
I've seen some titles on sale and Google tends to have 25% off some new releases as well.
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Probably just looking at different books I guess. During agency almost anything I looked at that was in mass market PB ($7.99) was the same price in ebook. Now all of those same books are $5.99 or less.
EDIT: I take this back. It was that way for books I was looking at a month or so ago, but it appears prices on a lot of them have crept back up some (not as high as they were under agency, but closer to that price).
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I was told by ARe that it was up to the publisher if they wanted their books to be eligible for the loyalty program.
But leaving it up to the publisher means while agency pricing may be not in effect in theory, it is still in effect in reality.
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Yes, I get your point.
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Sales are all well and good, but if the titles I'm interested in buying aren't on sale than it doesn't matter. I miss the days when all books are coupon eligible. Coupons and loyalty programs are where agency pricing never ended.
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Well, like I said the only loyalty program left is OmniLit/ARe. I agree it would be nice if they included everything (even though they don't carry everything other stores do). As for coupons I'm only guessing like I said before, but I think Kobo probably stopped those because of the requirement they make a profit on a publishers overall catalog. I suppose they could do coupons for specific publishers, but if they did I'd bet they wouldn't be the high discount codes folks have come to expect from them.
It would be great if someone could do a program run the way the Fictionwise one was, but the market is a lot different now not sure if they could make it long term.