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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Dollar books are a separate issue since those extreme prices tend to be short-term promotions, shorts, or PD titles.
They are no more representative of the economics of ebooks than perma-free titles when taken alone. (Perma-free works as a loss leader entry into a ladder-priced series.)
Amazon discourages $0.99 ebooks as much as they discourage $20 ebooks, maybe more.
Amazon explained their view on the non-linear price elasticity of books way back in summer 2014:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/...r-9-99-prices/
Fundamentally, the BPHs and their apologists don't believe in price elasticity but they do believe in the divine infallibility of BPH execs. In that worldview the BPHs only publish great books and people will pay any price to buy those books because only those specific books will meet their needs.
The idea that somebody might see a book priced at $20 and choose instead to buy two other books at $9.99 each is alien to them. Of course, the reality is that a more typical reader with buy two $6 books and a month of Hulu or Netflix.  |
I am not disagreeing with you but I am saying one of the BPH screwed over an author royally on her e-book just to get that number 1 spot.
Yes it was a sale but if even 100,000 buy it while it is on sale that is still money out of the author's pocket.
Now if Amazon is so against 99 cents why do they allow it? Better yet, please explain how amazon is so against 99 cent books? They make 65 cents on almost every 99 cent book. Why do they allow countdown deals at 99 cents? They only get 30 cents on those.
Please show me in writing where Amazon is against 99 cent books. Or is this the royalty thing?
If they were really against that price point, they could disallow it. I mean you cannot go lower than 99 cents. And perma-free is technically against their TOS but they overlook it. If it bothered them that much, they could quit doing it.
Oh and on the free books, if Amazon is so against it, why are there nearly 1 million public domain books free there. Heck that was an advertising campaign.
Those "loss leaders" bring in customers.
Long as I am there might as well grab a reading light, baby gate, batteries and a charger, diaper pail (that was a gift), and the list goes on.