Thread: Amazon vs. Hachette Update - It's About Price
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Old 08-01-2014, 09:10 PM   #129
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
It's not a matter of better or worse, but different.

Hachette knows what happened to total sales of The Silkworm when Amazon lowered the eBook price from $14.99 to $8.99. Amazon only knows what happened to sales at Amazon.com.

Amazon certainly has better data on how big is the negative effect on indie mystery sales the day they dramatically lower the prices of a few bestselling big publisher whodunits. Now there's a statistic you won't see them putting in a press release!
Or maybe Amazon wants to keep the "negative day" sales secret for other reasons? The previous year, with the 14.99 BPH price, customers have been gobbling up the cheap indie titles, getting exposed to new authors, eroding the BPHs appeal...

Who knows?
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