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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Why is the competition any different when the price drops?
If it is initially priced lower then it is still competing with the 20 other books you mention in your price range.
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Because it has our attention and impulse buy RIGHT then. I'm another one who often decides I can live without a certain book. Some of it is because my mood has changed. Maybe I'm reading mysteries instead of urban fantasy. Maybe I'm reading cozies by the time that next Ilona Andrews comes out. Maybe I've just decided I've timed out on those characters because I've found a series I like better at the moment.
Shrug. It does happen. It used to happen in the old days even more when I'd be waiting on a paperback and had to schlepp to the bookstore to check and see if it was out yet. By the time a year had passed, I'd very often moved on to different series or different genres. Sometimes I'd get the book for old time's sake...but a lot of the time, something else now held my attention.
That's not to say that it doesn't work out for publishers. Maybe it does. They have the right to sell books at any price, in any format they want. I don't have to cater to them and they must think it works because they keep selling that way!