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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
No, it's not hard to see if you look for the price, but it's also not a nice large banner across the top like it used to be--urging the buyer to get that low price with the large countdown clock running... If you just click to the book because you saw an ad that it was 1.99, you might not even glance over there...because you are waiting for the BLASTED book description to load--which now takes a day and a half (and I say this as a reader/buyer.) The FIRST thing I want to see if the book description. Now, I go to a page and start paging down looking for it because it loads so dang slow I forget to WAIT for it. OH there it is. TWO LINES and I must click more to READ the dang thing.
And yes. Authors and publishers put things like, "Oh, Miss-you-never-heard of-her Read my book and here is what she had to say." *insert 80 garbage lines* And "My mum loves me more than any other child" And all kinds of nonsense that ...
Well yes. You said it so concisely and well.
I've actually paged away from several books lately because I can't be fussed after waiting for it to load and seeing that the short few lines are not a blurb, but some other nonsense.
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Well now since I have been burned a time or two by "bait and switch" authors, I always look at the price. "Buy an ad and only lower the price for a very short time. Of course, the next day they are on forums griping about returns. "
You know I am not sure that countdown being so visible is a good thing. Ok this book is on special for 6 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes. Will the impulse buyer come back and grab it?
I leave immediately if the top line is read free on kindle unlimited.
Amazon already says subscribers read for free.