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Originally Posted by crich70
They didn't stay free for long. I missed them apparently.  |
Sorry about that; I thought I had a handle on how Lion/Monarch usually did their freebies. In retrospect, the offer was too good to be true, since generally publishers don't do more than 1 book per series for their official promos, much less 3, and with the multiple editions/ASINs search listing/price fluxing, I should have realized sooner that it was most likely a glitch.
At least they're kind of going cheap if you're really interested?
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Originally Posted by mitford13
I'm not a huge fan of the Amazon imprints, except to encourage and hope for more reprints of backlists such as Gladys Mitchell, the Saint books, etc, but Amazon Crossing does have promise...
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I think the main difference between most of Amazon's in-house imprints and AmazonCrossing is that aside from the big names like Ed McBain & Leslie Charteris et al., their authors are primarily low-level midlist backlist writers who are decently competent, but generally weren't the major talents or most popular sellers in their genres even before Amazon picked them up.
Whereas much of the time when I look at the blurb/editorial reviews for an AmazonCrossing title, it'll say something like Won the Umpty XYZ Award For Best —ic Novel, or that the series is a long-standing beloved classic in its country of origin, or that the writer has some kind of prize recognition for authorship achievement or whatever. So they've kind of been cherry-picking the better quality/proven popular appeal works to begin with.
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Originally Posted by mitford13
(I had also seen another article that detailed the Finnish crime books they're featuring for the coming year but I can't find it at the moment.)
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I think it might be this one from a couple of weeks back?
AmazonCrossing to Spotlight Finnish Works
Many thanks for mentioning it and linking the other article. It's nice to see that I have a few more things Relevant To My Interests® to look forward to in the near future.
