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Old 09-10-2015, 09:41 PM   #899
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Update on the University of Chicago Press' Ebook Sale--III.

It's Thursday night, just after 9 p.m., here in the U.S. Eastern time zone. I'm seeing quite a few UCP titles showing up on a markdown list that I follow. The upshot: the sale appears to be still on.

With the particular resource that I use, I can't tell exactly when ebooks have been marked down, but I get a rough idea. It looks like they were going strong around the middle of the day, before ceasing this afternoon.

If this is true, UCP's (and/or Amazon's?) modus operandi of posting markdowns during the night has changed or been modified.

I wish that I could speak more definitely and confidently than I can about all of this. I feel like I'm flying blind. Maybe what little I know will be of benefit to someone, though.

So . . . . if you haven't yet checked out the list (UCP ebooks at Amazon, sorted by price low to high), this might encourage you to scan over it, since there are even more bargains to be had than there were (assuming that UCP hasn't moved the price back up on some of them). If you have already checked out the list, you might be willing to browse the list again.

Oh, you may be wondering why, if I have access to a markdown list, do I not just browse it for the UCP markdowns. There's one main reason. That is that this markdown list does not give nearly all of the ebook markdowns that there are. It gives what the website operators consider the "best." Their opinion and my opinion of what are the best are not the same. The number of UCP ebooks on this list has been relatively small compared to all of the things that I knew or found out later had been marked down by UCP.

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