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Originally Posted by pendragginp
When I click on the link the price is $9.25 - ?
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It was 99 cents when I posted it. Sorry.
Yesterday, HarperCollins Publishers (or whoever was responsible--HarperCollins is the publisher of the title)
flooded the system with markdowns. There could have been 300-400 markdowns, easily. It usually takes minutes for me to review the better markdowns of a day; yesterday it took
hours.
Pretty much unexpectedly, for me at least, many, if not all, of the markdowns didn't last very long at all. There is one that I posted in the "Christian Interest" thread that I estimate couldn't have lasted more than half of a day! By the time that I got to the end of the list (so to speak), many of the titles, to my annoyance, had jumped back up in price.
When a publisher or retailer (whoever is the entity that makes the decision) makes a markdown, it usually takes me several hours, at least, to see it. If I post it on MobileRead immediately, it then still usually takes several hours, at least, on average, for an interested person to see it. With markdowns like this one by HarperCollins yesterday, that may make it too late for the person to get the ebook at the marked-down price.
If HarperCollins Publishers thinks that they are endearing themselves to us by dumping this huge number of markdowns on us, for only a brief amount of time, they are mistaken.
Because of this issue with
one title recently (the one that I mentioned that the post was in the "Christian Interest" thread), I have been trying to review the "list" earlier in the day. I wasn't able to yesterday, however.
In case you're wondering, it is frustrating not just to people who see my posts of markdowns and try to take advantage of them, only to find that they have already ended, but also to me. It does take some effort on my part (and on the part of all who make posts of ebooks--thank you to them) to make the posts and it's frustrating when I've made a post only to find that no one was able to take advantage of it.
I rarely know how long a markdown will last. I've noticed that ATDrake knows a lot of times. I need to talk with him and find out his secret(s).
I've written the above not just for your sake concerning the title that you mentioned, but also to use in future situations and so that the information can be archived by Mobileread for reference purposes.